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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Body
Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known symptom of burnout: the disconnect from physical sensation. Lucas shares how chronic stress can suppress interoception—the brain's ability to read hunger, fatigue, and pain cues—citing a 2023 study from the University of Zurich that found burned-out participants showed 40% lower accuracy in heartbeat detection tasks. Luna offers a personal example of forgetting to eat for 10 hours during a high-pressure project. They discuss practical strategies like body scanning and the 'STOP' technique to rebuild the mind-body bridge. This episode avoids…
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