Maternal Burnout: How to Recover When Motherhood Feels Overwhelming

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Apr 1, 2026 · 31m

You love your children completely. And you are running on empty in a way that frightens you. Not tired — depleted. The kind of exhaustion that does not lift after a good night of sleep and does not get better after a weekend away. Maternal burnout is real, it is clinically recognized, and it is happening to far more mothers than anyone talks about because admitting it feels like admitting failure. Dr. Susan Landers is a neonatologist who has spent her career at the beginning of life — and what she shares about the real signs of maternal burnout, why it is not failure, and what recovery…