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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Boundary-Setting
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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 resources for evaluating costs are depleted. Luna offers a personal anecdote about learning to say 'I'll get back to you tomorrow' without apologizing. The episode closes with a single practical reframe borrowed from boundary researcher Nedra Glover Tawwab: boundaries aren't walls, they're gates you control. No guilt, no scripts, just one small shift in how you think about the ask.