Burn Bright

In “Burn Bright”, Charlene Rymsha has laid out the contents into six comprehensive chapters which build upon each other: What is Burnout?; Mindfulness Focus; Body Focus; Mind Focus; Emotional Focus; Social and Personal Focus, and Wellness Focus. The book includes illustrations, exercises and useful tips.

Chances are you’ve heard about mindfulness — even if you don’t know exactly what it is. At its core, mindfulness is the engagement of attention and awareness in the absence of reactivity or judgment.

Unfortunately, even if modern humans aren’t evading woolly mammoths at every turn, the demands of our current existence can place us in a state of chronic stress. Tethered to our devices, working multiple jobs and constantly fretting about bills, health care, job security and more keeps our stress hormone levels on high and induces cascades of neurological events that inflame our body’s cells, interfere with our ability to regulate our emotions and behaviour, and make it more likely that we’ll reach for unhealthy coping mechanisms. Mindfulness inserts a pause into a behavioural cascade, helping to override emotional impulses.

Self-care isn’t skin-deep, nor is it a luxury. Everyone can practice self-care, no matter one’s socioeconomic status. We each have our own unique life circumstances and internal obstacles to work with. And we each have the ability to choose how we want to treat ourselves.

“Burn Bright” is an attractive, colourful and accessible book designed to be a practical guide to help you do the healing work necessary to get out of burnout and into a state of sustained well-being. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this interesting and informative book and highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to feel healthier, happier and more focused.

A huge thank you to @NetGalley and #RockPointPublishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Burn Bright offers a brief but thorough introduction to burnout and how it can occur in our day to day lives. The book also offers helpful skills to incorporate in daily life to protect energy and create boundaries to maintain a healthy balance required in life.

I really liked this book! It was small but mighty in its advice, and I love having concrete skills that I can try out to stop burnout. There was a balance of psychological and holistic perspectives when it came to burnout which I appreciated. The graphics were beautiful, and the space to conduct activities felt well placed to ensure reflection from the reader.

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great book if you want to learn more about Burnout, the symptoms involved, what causes it, how you can combat it, etc. It’s also a good read if you think you may be experiencing Burnout and would like more information on it, or if you feel like you’re getting close and would like some strategies to help prevent it. I liked that this book wasn’t too long and that it went directly to the point. I also liked that many of the strategies expanded upon could be used even without correlation to Burnout, because it makes this book more useful to a broader audience. Apart from that, it’s a really cute book. It is designed carefully and cohesively and that made the reading experience even better. I especially liked the parts we get to fill out, kind of workbook style.

This book takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. Highly recommend. Especially loved the reflection to true life to humanize my feelings and relate. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I loved this book! The writer goes into details about ways to fight and relieve burnout. She makes everything easy to understand and gives you exercises to help you along your journey. Plus, the aesthetic is beautiful and jazzes you up. This book really did help me with my burnout.

I liked this book!
It was interesting and helpful, introducing the concept of burnout and giving tips on how to get out of it and into a state of well being.
I liked the fact that this book contains different exercises that you can use in your daily life to be more effective and conscious about your well being. The exercise are steps we can take in order to change our lives by adopting new habits.
I highly recommend reading it! It honestly helped me understand burnout and how I can change and be more present with myself and connected to my body.

Burn Bright was a pretty good read. As someone who struggles with imposter syndrome, and burnout I resonated a lot with what Rymsha wrote. I was left wanting a little more depth. This would be a great read for someone who is struggling to identify the cause of their burnout and feeling lost.

Bright topic for a bright girl. Love love love it. Will purchase my own copy when it’s available for purchase. So beautifully written.

This is a lovely and informative book for self-improvement and wellness. There is so much helpful information and exercises.

Thank you, Rock Point and NetGalley, for a digital ARC!

Burn Bright is a great practical self help guide for anyone that is suffering with burn out or wanting to learn more about it or who is interested in becoming more focused and mindful.

Packed full of useful tips and strategies this book is the perfect read right now with the challenges that many of us face with the global pandemic and life in general. We all seem to consumed by stress and could from being a little bit more self-aware and mindful. Self-care is important and it's something that not enough of us do for ourselves let alone on a daily basis.

The book includes alot of great exercises that you can use in your day to day life to make you more conscious of your own wellbeing. I think these are all steps we would benefit from putting into our lives right now and know that there a few things from the book that I will be taking on board.

Thank you to Netgalley and Rock Point for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow, this book packs a punch. It is very thoughtful and the activities so powerful. This is a must read, especially for those who think negatively of themselves. It gets you to believe that you are enough through a range of exercises that build on each other. It gets you to think about helpful and unhelpful thoughts. The illustrations are calming too. Loved it.