Friend Burnout

How to Be Fine

Kristen and Jolenta

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Friends are great. But they can also be exhausting. What’s the best way to strike the balance between being there and burning out? Amy Wilson, author of Happy To Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser, and cohost of What Fresh Hell, shares her thoughts. We want to hear from you! Share your own experiences with friendship and loneliness on our private facebook community: facebook.com/groups/kristenandjolenta or write to us at [email protected] And join our Patreon Community to get biweekly episodes of our new show: Dean & Kristen Look Back! In each episode, Dean and Kristen revisit their time on By The Book, share behind-the-scenes secrets, and give updates on their lives. Patreon is also the home of our weekly advice column, our Patreon-only season of By The Book, nearly 200 minisodes, the written rules of every self-help book we’ve lived by, and more: patreon.com/listentobythebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jolenta, can we talk about all the amazing changes on our Patreon?
0:05.0	Let's do it because we have tons of new and different offerings over there that we know everyone's going to love.
0:12.0	Indeed, our live book club has wrapped up and with it our top tier membership, but starting April 1st at our two remaining membership levels. We'll have full-length episodes
0:21.8	hosted by me and Dean that come up biweekly. In each one, we'll look back episode by episode
0:28.0	at our time on by the book, share behind the scenes secrets, and give updates on our lives.
0:34.5	On top of that, we'll have a new weekly advice column. And that's not all. Of course,
0:39.9	we also have our full Patreon-only bonus season of By the Book, where we live by things like
0:47.1	The Artist's Way and a Mel Robbins book. It's very great season. There are also nearly 200 many episodes, the written
0:56.1	rules of every book we've ever lived by, and more. Oh, there's so much there. To get all that and more,
1:02.2	go to patreon.com slash listen to buy the book. That's patreon.com slash listen to buy the book.
1:10.1	Hey, Kristen.
1:11.4	Yeah, Jolenta.
1:12.5	You've admitted over the years to being a bit of a people pleaser.
1:16.1	I think a bit might be an understatement.
1:18.9	I'm just maybe full on truly guilty of it.
1:21.8	I just said a bit to be nice, but yeah.
1:25.4	And in your quest to make other people happy, especially your friends, I know that sometimes you have burned yourself out.
1:33.7	Oh, yes.
1:34.2	That is very true.
1:35.5	Burned myself out.
1:36.4	And frankly, at times, gotten somewhat resentful.
1:40.5	Maybe more than somewhat.
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