The Burnout Break Journal - For Therapists

As a therapist, you navigate deep emotional work daily, holding space for others while often neglecting your own well-being. The weight of compassion fatigue, emotional overload, and burnout can silently accumulate, leaving you drained, disconnected, and questioning how much more you can give. Burnout Break for Therapists is more than a journal—it’s a structured 15-minute recovery system designed to help you process the emotional toll of your work, regain clarity, and restore balance before burnout takes hold.

Built on the Pause, Process, Pivot framework, this journal provides a research-backed approach to preventing emotional exhaustion, reducing compassion fatigue, and maintaining professional sustainability. With guided prompts, self-assessment tools, and structured exercises, it transforms self-care from an afterthought into a tangible, actionable practice.

What’s Inside the Journal?

✔ Guided Reflection & Writing Prompts – Thoughtfully designed to help you offload stress, untangle emotions, and regain perspective.
✔ Burnout Symptom Tracker – Identify patterns, assess emotional fatigue, and recognize early warning signs before burnout escalates.
✔ Emergency Reset Pages – Quick interventions to regulate overwhelm in real-time, so you can reset between sessions.
✔ Boundary-Building Exercises – Learn how to protect your emotional reserves and maintain therapeutic presence without depletion.
✔ Self-Care Planning Toolkit – Create a personalized action plan for sustainable wellness, not just reactive relief.

Why Therapists Need This Journal

📌 Because burnout doesn’t just impact you—it affects your clients, your practice, and your quality of life.
📌 Because emotional labor is invisible, but its toll is very real.
📌 Because self-care isn’t indulgence—it’s an ethical imperative for effective practice.

In just 15 minutes a day, this journal helps you step away from the relentless demands of your role and re-center yourself. Pause to create space. Process to release emotional weight. Pivot to return with renewed clarity and intention.

You cannot pour from an empty cup. Let this be the tool that helps you refill yours.

Your Burnout Break starts now.

Physical Journal Size: 6x9