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Burnout isn’t an accident. And for many women, it isn’t just about work.

In this piece for , organisational psychologist and author writes about burnout as the cost of bad work design.

Not bad time management.
Not a failure to be resilient enough.
Not something that can be solved with a yoga app and a lunchtime webinar.

As Dr Kat writes, to talk about burnout in women we need to talk about total load — not just workload.

The paid work.
The unpaid care.
The domestic admin.
The emotional labour.
The mental tabs left open all day, every day.

When work is designed as though people have endless capacity, and women are still carrying more of the invisible load at home, burnout stops looking like an individual issue and starts looking exactly like what it is: a systems issue.

This piece gets into the real drivers — overload, low control, poor recovery, impossible standards — and why fixing burnout means fixing work itself.

A sharp and necessary read from Dr Kat Page.

Read via the link in bio / stories.

One of the things I value most in the work I do is being close to stories that allow room for complexity.

Far Horizons is one of those stories. Aaron Tait was deployed to the Persian Gulf at 17, experienced war up close, and later had the courage to question the role he played and the ideas he once held.

The book is not about certainty or heroics. It’s about responsibility, moral reckoning, and the very human capacity to change our mind.

Hearing Aaron speak about this journey on Conversations captures that honesty beautifully.

I was a teenage military officer in the War on Terror. Then I had to make a new life for myself - ABC listen Aaron Tait was 18 when he was deployed after September 11. His dad's guidance had set Aaron up with the grit he would need as a military officer, but it took him many years to forgive himself for his role in the war. Aaron comes from a long line of Navy men, and all through his childhood he was wait...