High-Functioning Burnout doesn't look like collapse - it looks like competence.
It's showing up exhausted, over-prepared, and praised for your resilience while quietly running on empty.
This book is for those who keep functioning, producing, and being relied on even when it's costing them their health, clarity, and joy. Whether you've just begun noticing the signs or you've been living this way for years, High-Functioning Burnout offers a clear, grounded exploration of what happens when burnout hides behind productivity, people-pleasing, and performance.
In this guide, Field, survivor and founder of Phoenix Soulworks, breaks down high-functioning burnout without clichés, toxic positivity, or surface-level advice. Through relatable examples, trauma-informed insight, and practical frameworks, she examines why this form of burnout is so hard to recognize, why it's often rewarded by society, and how it quietly erodes your capacity over time.
High-functioning burnout is reinforced by environments that reward over-functioning, over-explaining, and pushing through at all costs. It's shaped by personal history, external expectations, and the belief that rest must be earned. This book helps you identify the behaviors and pressures that keep you stuck - and gently hands back the agency you may not realize you've lost.
Rather than telling you to "slow down" or "do less," this guide does the heavy lifting for you. It offers structured insight, usable frameworks, and space to pause and absorb - without urgency or judgment. The goal isn't to stop functioning, but to stop sacrificing yourself in the process.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
- Identify what high-functioning burnout looks like for you
- Recognize the hidden behaviors that maintain burnout
- Understand which expectations are yours - and which are not
- Reduce over-functioning without losing your identity
- Maintain capacity and clarity even when life stays demanding
...and more.
High-Functioning Burnout is the first book in the Phoenix Soulworks Burnout Series: a sustainable roadmap for those who are tired of surviving quietly while being praised publicly, and who are ready to stop performing resilience and start living on their own terms.
