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The Executive Unraveling: A Purpose-Driven Midlife Guide to Burnout, the Brain, and the Slower Path Back to Legacy, Meaning, and Human Connection

The Executive Unraveling: A Purpose-Driven Midlife Guide to Burnout, the Brain, and the Slower Path Back to Legacy, Meaning, and Human Connection

Jablonski, Richard

Paperback

Series: Self-Help for You

ManagementGeneral PsychologySelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798258730411
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 24 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when achievement no longer feels like nourishment?

For many midlife leaders, burnout does not arrive as a dramatic collapse. It arrives quietly-in the tense morning before another meeting, the growing irritation toward ordinary decisions, the numbness after another success, the distance from family, and the private fear that the role has swallowed the person.

The Executive Unraveling is a purpose-driven guide for corporate leaders, executives, managers, founders, and high-achieving professionals in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond who are beginning to feel the hidden cost of chronic pressure.

Through a compassionate neuroscientific and philosophical lens, this book explores how long-term stress affects the executive brain, weakens flexible decision-making, narrows emotional range, disrupts identity, and quietly damages connection with the people and values that matter most.

Inside, readers will explore:

How chronic stress reshapes leadership thinking and emotional regulation

Why achievement can stop feeling fulfilling in midlife

How decision fatigue, identity fusion, and emotional numbness develop

Why family, friendship, conscience, and vocation often get pushed to the edge

How slower leadership can become a form of wisdom rather than weakness.

How to move from performance-driven living toward legacy-rooted purpose

This is not a book of shallow productivity hacks or quick burnout fixes. It is a mature, reflective self-help book for leaders who are ready to stop optimizing their exhaustion and begin recovering the life beneath the role.

If you have spent years being strong, useful, successful, and needed-but privately wonder what all that striving has cost-The Executive Unraveling offers a compassionate path back to presence, purpose, and human connection.

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