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Endorsements for Burnout Recovery:
“As a therapist who specializes in bibliotherapy, I found Alicia King Anderson’s Burnout Recovery to be one of the most insightful and compassionate guides for those navigating the complex terrain of burnout. Using a vivid and accessible wildfire metaphor, Alicia gently walks readers through the stages of collapse and recovery. Her book offers practical tools, personal stories, and reflective guidance for understanding where you are in the burnout cycle and how to begin again. Whether you’re dealing with workplace exhaustion, neurodivergent burnout, chronic illness, or seeking ways to prevent future flare-ups, this book provides a healing roadmap that is both deeply validating and profoundly useful.” – Emely Rumble, LICSW Author of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx
“This powerful and compassionate manuscript approaches burnout not as a single event but as an all‑encompassing experience that can touch every layer of our lives: professionally, personally, and even in how we see ourselves. Through the vivid wildfire metaphor, Dr. Anderson explores how burnout can become a default state we return to again and again, even when we know it’s harming us, and how its impact can show up in our bodies, relationships, and choices. More importantly, there are practical tips to start addressing burnout.
The sections addressing neurodivergent experiences, the mental load at home, career shifts, and long‑term recovery are what make this book special. This author offers a clear, hopeful roadmap for recognizing where you are in the cycle, finding relief, and cultivating a healthier, more sustainable way forward if you’re coping with burnout.” – Laura Briggs, author of The Six Figure Freelancer, Content is King, How to Start Your Own Freelance Writing Business, and Remote Work for Military Spouses.
“Alicia K. Anderson has crafted something refreshingly different in her latest book, Burnout Recovery, by viewing the concept of burnout through the powerful lens of wildfire ecology and story telling. By using the wildfire metaphor of moving through Fire, Flood, Regrowth and Prevention, readers are able to understand the process involved in workplace exhaustion. By integrating depth psychology and eco-psychology, she has created practical tools and provided a framework for readers to follow a roadmap through this often devastating landscape.
Her expansion beyond workplace burnout to address the often-overlooked issue of neurodivergent burnout, is particularly valuable. Her personal experience with autism and chronic illness brings authenticity and nuance to discussions that are often only surface-level in other books.
One of the book’s greatest strengths lies in its actionable approach. Rather than simply diagnosing the problem, Burnout Recovery provides concrete exercises, rituals, and support strategies that acknowledge burnout as a systemic issue while empowering individual healing. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to heal from burnout, or support others through it.” – Fiona Wilkinson, Psy.D. Behavioral Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / ADHD Clinician
“Alicia beautifully explores the metaphor of a wildfire and flood to guide people in unpacking their burnout and grief. The exercises throughout the book allow us to deeply reflect on our work and family lives, creating boundaries, and empowering us to find a way forward through the wildfire to restoration. Her metaphors and vulnerability give us permission to be equally vulnerable as we process our burnout.” – Jessica Shannon, M.Div. BCC
“Dr. Anderson’s extraordinary work, applying ecopsychology and natural world cycles to the “feature” of burnout current generations experience, reintroduces ancient, deep, biological life-cycle wisdom to an AI-driven world. Stressors abound in our over-stimulated evirons. Alicia’s work is a significant contribution to managing the undergrowth and minimizing runaway wildfire while enabling recovery and nurturing new life from the ashfall.” – Nathan Hogan, Ph.D., Vice President, One Tree Learning Institute
“This book is one of the most powerful that I have read to help clients who are at a crossroad in their careers. Based in science, written with deep understanding, and full of practical exercises to help clients gain clarity, Burnout Recovery is a great resource for career and leadership coaches who work with clients to move away from burnout to build (and sustain) a satisfying career.” – Judy Berman, Career and Leadership Coach
“Signs of burnout are rampant and detectable in our parched spirits, in the inflammation that regularly flares up in our bodies, in the rise of our emotional melt downs, and in the hot messes all this imbalance creates. By the end of any given day, we are often fuming and venting to a kind listening ear, hoping to prevent a blow up of pent-up frustration.
Alicia’s timely Burnout Recovery: Healing from Workplace Stress with Nature’s Wisdom offers readers a much-needed breath of fresh air and sight of the promising horizon that is typically covered by thick smoke. Her step-by-step, fireproof guidance draws from her deep knowledge and her own close encounters with wildfires, distilled in easy and relatable metaphoric analogies to help us assess, contain, and heal our own relationship to burnout. Convinced that it’s never too late– even if we’ve felt stuck for years fighting fire after fire –she shows us how to detect instead of neglect our personal warming signals and dismantle default inner climate denial, using her rich lived experiences as example.
Anderson offers us hopeful solutions and a clear roadmap that not only will heal burnout on a personal level. If we all do our part in preventing future burnout, we also have a fighting chance in deterring devastating climate catastrophes and wildfires that more often than not are the result of relentless drive, unsustainable exploitation, and overheating of ourselves and our Earth Mother in the name of productivity.” – Loraine Van Tuyl, Ph.D., CHT, Soul Authority Transformational Life Coach, Integrative Clinical Psychologist, author of Amazon Wisdom Keeper, and Soul Authority