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The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers

How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Boundary-Setting

Published
July 10, 2026
Duration
11:20
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Last updated
Aug 2, 2026

Discusses Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion quietly dismantles our ability to set and ma…

Summary

Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion quietly dismantles our ability to set and maintain boundaries. Using Dr. Harriet Lerner's classic book 'The Dance of Anger' as a framework, they walk through a single concrete scenario: the colleague who emails at 11 PM and expects a reply by morning. Lucas shares a study from the Journal of Applied …

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Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion quietly dismantles our ability to set and maintain boundaries. Using Dr. Harriet Lerner's classic book 'The Dance of Anger' as a framework, they walk through a single concrete scenario: the colleague who emails at 11 PM and expects a reply by morning. Lucas shares a study from the Journal of Applied Psychology showing that people in burnout cycles are 63 percent more likely to say yes to unreasonable requests because their cognitive resourc