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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Parents feel overloaded, with no free time and far too much to handle. Mothers particularly overwhelmed.
Chapter 3: Excessive stress can physically damage our brains, and ultimately make us lose control over our emotions completely.
Chapter 4: The industrial era drove higher productivity; yet since then, workers have never slowed down.
Chapter 5: Dad works; Mom minds the children. Old stereotypes still endure in our contemporary age today.
Chapter 6: Must we work 100 hours to stay productive? No. Flexible schedules and hours represent the future ahead.
Chapter 7: Gender stereotypes aren’t innate. Through effective public policy, they truly can be overcome.
Chapter 8: Accept that you can’t do everything today. Spend time practicing mindfulness or meditation.
Description
Overwhelmed (2014) explores how our outdated attitudes to gender, parenthood and race are making us all stressed and frantic. Author Brigid Schulte shows how such old fashioned ideas are holding us back from living happier, more fulfilled lives. Yet, it doesn’t have to be this way. There are alternative ways to live, we just need to learn how to implement them.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who feels stressed or overwhelmed
- Anyone who feels pressured to conform to gender stereotypes