Burn Bright: Heal Yourself from Burnout and Live with Presence, Purpose & Peace (Volume 15)

by Charlene Rymsha

In Burn Bright (Not Out), burnout expert Charlene Rymsha teaches her proven and holistic approach to efficiently and effectively getting unstuck and provides the tools and support to maintain lasting—and evolving—transformation from the empty feeling caused by burnout.

Do you have trouble getting started at work? Do you feel depleted of energy and not productive? Do you have a hard time concentrating or do not feel satisfied from your achievements? If so, you may be experiencing burnout, which the World Health Organization officially labeled as a workplace syndrome in May of 2019.

While equipping you with the skills to undo and prevent burnout, Charlene will teach you how to identify your personal values and then use them as guideposts for embodied mindfulness. Powerful and reflective meditations coupled with positive reinforcement strategies will get you burning brightly in no time!

The Live Well series from Rock Point invites you to create a life you love through multiple acts of self-discovery and reinvention. These encouraging gift books touch on fun yet hardworking self-improvement strategies, whether it’s learning to value progress over perfection, taking time to meditate and slow down to literally smell the roses, or finding time to show gratitude and develop a personal mantra. From learning how to obtain more restful sleep and creating a healthy work/life balance to developing personal style and your own happy place, the Live Well series encourages you to live your best life.
 
Other titles in the series include: Progress Over Perfection; Find Your Flow; Be Happy; Seeking Slow; Finding Gratitude; Eff This! Meditation; The Joy of Forest Bathing; Find Your Mantra; It Had to be You; Men’s Society; Genius Jokes; The Calm and Cozy Book of Sleep; Live Your Best Life Ayurveda; Choose Happy; and You Got This.
 

Genres: Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

Published April 27, 2021

About the author

Charlene Rymsha is founder of Everyday Coherence and creator of the Say Goodbye to Burnout method. She helps ambitious and creative professionals overcome burnout without sacrificing their relationships, paycheck, or freedom. Clients arrive to Charlene on edge, unfocused, and exhausted, seeking to regain their confidence, clarity, and strength. Through formal training in psychotherapy and mindfulness modalities, Charlene brings a holistic and proven approach to the burnout recovery process with a compassionate and evidence-based system of support. We all deserve to live a life full of joy and meaning, and the Say Goodbye to Burnout method, enables those who are suffering to regain joyful connected relationships and professional success.

Reviews

[Bregje · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good mindfulness exercises and beautifully designed, but I did feel like there was too much text, both in terms density in the layout and verbosity. I feel like the book would have been much stronger had it focussed more on the exercises itself and provided more to the point explanations. After the first 50 pages I found myself skim reading because the narrative wasn't able to hold my attention.

[Calli Barton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful to burnout and helps redefine yourself to be the best you. Good tactics, ideas for meditation, and breathing rhythms to help with stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout.

[BookswithElena · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book!
It was interesting and helpful, introducing the concept of burnout and giving tips on how to get out of it and into a state of well being.
I liked the fact that this book contains different exercises that you can use in your daily life to be more effective and conscious about your well being. The exercise are steps we can take in order to change our lives by adopting new habits.
I highly recommend reading it! It honestly helped me understand burnout and how I can change and be more present with myself and connected to my body.

[Sky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Burn Bright is a great practical self help guide for anyone that is suffering with burn out or wanting to learn more about it or who is interested in becoming more focused and mindful.

Packed full of useful tips and strategies this book is the perfect read right now with the challenges that many of us face with the global pandemic and life in general. We all seem to consumed by stress and could from being a little bit more self-aware and mindful. Self-care is important and it's something that not enough of us do for ourselves let alone on a daily basis.

The book includes alot of great exercises that you can use in your day to day life to make you more conscious of your own wellbeing. I think these are all steps we would benefit from putting into our lives right now and know that there a few things from the book that I will be taking on board.

Thank you to Netgalley and Rock Point for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[Lauren Lindley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so much more than a book about your relationship with work: it's an amazing reminder if the mindfulness we need to bring to our bodies regarding our emotions and relationship with them, as well as skills and practices that allow you to recognize, harness and move through then with growth and success.

The physical copy of this book is beautiful and the organization is excellent.

[Akasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this intending to supplement my counseling for anxiety and panic. This book covers burnout and the stress response which isn't technically the same as anxiety disorder but it's written in a way that can be applied to it. I found many different perspectives here that have been so helpful to moving through to healing.

[Sally Wilsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book for everyone to read. Burnout is a real thing and unfortunately in this day and age most people have it. I really like the writing prompts as if you put it on paper you remember it more. The book uses mindfulness and mantras which is very new age and popular now. I also like the book is short and does not go into things not needed.

[Belle · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for those who feel like they are always busy and struggle to slow down and settle the mind. I love the bursts of colour. There are some helpful exercises within this book to encourage grounding and calmness.

*Free e-copy received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Leanne Shelton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exactly what I needed to read right now... Loved the exercises. Shame it was a library book... Might need to buy myself a copy now!

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some great takeaways from this book, however there were too many exercises.

[Gwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this started out woo-woo, however, overall ended up liking the book and finding the suggestions and exercises incredibly useful. "I choose peace."

[Drew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was written by a therapist. I wish the print had been larger, but at least there weren't any cuss words. Those words leave a nasty feeling since I read out loud.

[Caffeinated Fae · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Desiree · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s got some fairly solid advice but does get repetitive. I had to read this along with another book because I would get a bit bored so I couldn’t really read it straight through on its own. That said, I liked it and most likely would keep it on hand.

[Mags (mbooksbycandlelight) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book if you want to learn more about Burnout, the symptoms involved, what causes it, how you can combat it, etc. It’s also a good read if you think you may be experiencing Burnout and would like more information on it, or if you feel like you’re getting close and would like some strategies to help prevent it. I liked that this book wasn’t too long and that it went directly to the point. I also liked that many of the strategies expanded upon could be used even without correlation to Burnout, because it makes this book more useful to a broader audience. Apart from that, it’s a really cute book. It is designed carefully and cohesively and that made the reading experience even better. I especially liked the parts we get to fill out, kind of workbook style.

I received an eArc via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Michelle McGrane · Rating 4 out of 5]

In “Burn Bright”, Charlene Rymsha has laid out the contents into six comprehensive chapters which build upon each other: What is Burnout?; Mindfulness Focus; Body Focus; Mind Focus; Emotional Focus; Social and Personal Focus, and Wellness Focus. The book includes illustrations, exercises and useful tips.

Chances are you’ve heard about mindfulness — even if you don’t know exactly what it is. At its core, mindfulness is the engagement of attention and awareness in the absence of reactivity or judgment.

Unfortunately, even if modern humans aren’t evading woolly mammoths at every turn, the demands of our current existence can place us in a state of chronic stress. Tethered to our devices, working multiple jobs and constantly fretting about bills, health care, job security and more keeps our stress hormone levels on high and induces cascades of neurological events that inflame our body’s cells, interfere with our ability to regulate our emotions and behaviour, and make it more likely that we’ll reach for unhealthy coping mechanisms. Mindfulness inserts a pause into a behavioural cascade, helping to override emotional impulses.

Self-care isn’t skin-deep, nor is it a luxury. Everyone can practice self-care, no matter one’s socioeconomic status. We each have our own unique life circumstances and internal obstacles to work with. And we each have the ability to choose how we want to treat ourselves.

“Burn Bright” is an attractive, colourful and accessible book designed to be a practical guide to help you do the healing work necessary to get out of burnout and into a state of sustained well-being. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this interesting and informative book and highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to feel healthier, happier and more focused.

A huge thank you to @NetGalley and #RockPointPublishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[Kate Henderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book wasn't what I expected. Based on the blurb and the front cover I thought it would be a lot more spiritual than it was. It came from more of a psychological perspective - which was of course interesting, but I found it very dense. There was a lot of text to wade through and it felt quite scientific - something I struggled with.

However, I really liked the section about 'mind traps' - I've never heard it called that before mind you. I could really relate to some of these ideas. This was one of very few sections that I could actually relate to.

This book was just far too dense for me - and I felt like I was reading a science text book rather than a 'self help' guide.

[Mandy Hazen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. Highly recommend. Especially loved the reflection to true life to humanize my feelings and relate. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.