Available YouTube: zde
Length: 5 minutes
Language: English (easy to understand for intermediate learners)
Why watch this if you’re feeling overwhelmed?
- Burnout isn’t just about being tired — your body’s entire baseline can shift.
- This video explains why it’s common to come back from vacation and still feel completely drained.
- It helps you see that it’s not about being weak — it’s a biological response to long-term stress without proper recovery.
- A great introduction to the concept of physiological overload that brings both clarity and the courage to seek systemic change.
Key terms
- Homeostasis: your body’s stable internal balance (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature)
- Allostasis: your body’s ability to adapt to stress temporarily
- Allostatic load: what happens when your body doesn’t return to calm — and the “new normal” becomes tense and stressed
My note
This video fits perfectly with how I describe overload myself: as a loss of rhythm and a shift in the body’s internal state. Many people feel tired, irritable, or numb — and don’t understand why, because “they didn’t really do that much today.”
The video shows that your body can be overwhelmed just from the long-term build-up of small stressors without real recovery. For me, it was eye-opening to realize that the body isn’t “making up” that tension — it’s simply reacting to what it’s been exposed to for too long.
And if someone feels like they’re “just not functioning like they used to,” this is a great place to start understanding why — and to see that it’s not failure, but a biological response to ongoing pressure.