From Burnout to Renewal: What Your Body is Trying to Tell You | Hope Cook

Apr 21, 2026

In this episode of the Joyful Health Show, I interview Hope Cook, PA and life coach, about her book Healing Clinician Burnout: How to Revive Your Life and Career. If you're feeling apathetic, cynical, or experience a sense of resentment around work, this conversation is for you.

Here's what we cover:

Hope and Kasey's stories of burnout, including dreading work and fantasizing about being injured
Burnout stats, symptoms, and the impact of overloaded schedules and chronic comparison
Practical tools to recognize and move through burnout

We want you to walk away knowing that burnout is not a personal failure, but a wake-up call to listen in and change course. There is always hope!

"Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." —Jesus, Matthew 11:28

Helpful Timestamps:

01:30 Why Burnout Matters
05:57 Burnout By the Numbers
07:24 Why We’re So Overloaded
10:43 Signs and Symptoms
15:07 Body Compass and Truth
17:21 Bag Barter Better
20:26 Cocoon Prep Action
23:38 Find Value Beyond Work

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About Hope

Hope Cook has been a Physician Assistant for over 20 years and she's also a certified master life coach who specializes in helping healthcare professionals recover from burnout and rediscover purpose in their careers. After experiencing burnout herself, Hope made it her mission to help clinicians understand what burnout does to the nervous system—and how to heal from it. Today she’ll share practical insights and tools from her work and her book, Healing Clinician Burnout: How to Revive Your Life and Career

Resources

Work with Hope at www.coachhopecook.com
Watch Hope's video on The Body Compass
The Body Keeps the Score book

Body compass youtube link

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