Burnout Recovery Workbook

You’re exhausted. Somehow, you’re still the person everyone asks for things.

You keep the appointments, remember the details, anticipate the problems, and say “no worries” while actively having several worries. Then you finally sit down, and your brain asks whether you’ve earned it.

Burnout Recovery: For People Who Don’t Know How to Stop is a practical, refreshingly honest workbook for people who are tired of holding everything together—and unsure who they are when they aren’t being useful.

Created by My Therapist Knows About You (MTKAY), this workbook combines accessible psychoeducation, guided reflection, practical exercises, and a little well-placed sarcasm. Because “just relax” is spectacularly unhelpful when even your couch feels like a performance review.

Inside, you’ll find tools to help you:

• Identify the demands and patterns draining your energy.
• Make the invisible work of planning, remembering, and managing visible.
• Explore manageable ways to pause and recover.
• Reconnect with an identity beyond productivity and being needed.
• Practise boundaries with scripts you could actually say.
• Work through rest guilt and create your own “Enough List.”
• Ask for help that takes something off your plate.

With 78 pages of exercises, worksheets, and journaling space, this workbook invites you to explore what needs to change, what support is missing, and what a more sustainable day might look like.

You can start small. Leave a page unfinished. Write something mildly furious in the margins.

You do not need to turn recovery into another job you’re expected to excel at.

For education and self-reflection. This workbook is not therapy and does not replace individualized mental-health or medical care.