The Burnout No One Talks About

A recent study found that 65% of parents of ND kids are at high risk for burnout.
Fifty-one percent already in moderate to severe burnout.
Stress levels comparable to combat soldiers.

It’s not because of our kids.
It’s because we’re fighting institutions that deny what we live every day.

The burnout isn’t emotional weakness.
It’s structural exhaustion.

ND parents don’t need to “calm down.”
NT systems need to wake up.

Somatic Reflection- When you read about 65% of ND parents at high risk for burnout, put a hand on the part of you that reacted first:

• Is it your shoulders?
  The years of carrying everything the system refuses to.

• Your chest?
  The pressure of holding the truth without institutional support.

• Your back?
  The weight of endless advocacy that should never have been yours alone.

• Your eyes?
  The exhaustion that comes from explaining, justifying, proving.

Let the sensation be there without fixing it.

Your body is telling the truth about a load it was never meant to carry.