Parental Burnout and the Healing Power of Compassion

There’s a kind of exhaustion that sleep alone doesn’t fix—the kind that seeps into your patience, your joy, even the warmth you usually feel toward your children. If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “I love my kids, but I just don’t have anything left to give,” you may have brushed up against something called parental burnout.

Parental burnout, Compassion, Evidence-Based Therapy, Mental load, postpartum mental health, Postpartum supportCourtney KatzenbergNovember 4, 2025Parental burnout, Postpartum, Postpartum depression, Parental stress, Compassion, Compassion Focused Therapy