
Career Counseling as a Practice of Liberation
What gets called burnout is often something deeper: grief, identity loss, and the long-term impact of surviving inside systems that were never built to care for us. For many people—especially Black folks, queer folks, caregivers, immigrants, and anyone who's been made to shrink or overperform at work—burnout isn’t about a lack of resilience. It’s about what had to be held, swallowed, or sacrificed just to get through the day.