How To Recover From Burnout (It’s Not What You Expect) with Pippa Grange #656

In this powerful episode of Feel Better, Live More, Dr. Rangan Chatterjee welcomes performance coach and author Pippa Grange to explore the root causes and solutions to modern burnout. Grange reframes burnout not as a personal failure but as a collective cultural crisis driven by overperformance, relentless pace, and disconnection from natural rhythms. Drawing on her work with elite athletes like the England football team and her new book Life Reclaimed, she introduces the framework of 'regenerative performance'—a sustainable cycle of perform, rest, and renew modeled on nature. The conversation dives into how societal pressures, the loss of community, and the myth of constant optimization have eroded our ability to listen to our bodies and minds. Grange emphasizes that recovery isn’t about drastic life changes but about small, intentional shifts: practicing presence, diversifying modes of operation, honoring personal rhythms, and reconnecting with embodied intelligence. She challenges listeners to give themselves permission to stop fixing and instead come home to themselves through honesty, self-compassion, and micro-practices that restore wholeness. The episode concludes with a call to action: slow down, listen deeply, and reclaim life not through more effort, but through deeper alignment with who we truly are.