Burnout to Unstoppable: An Autism Mom's Memoir About Prioritizing Self-Care, Becoming Stress Resilient and Unleashing Her Inner Badass (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781777060220)

STOP BURNOUT. MANAGE STRESS. START PRIORITIZING YOU

In Burnout to Unstoppable, Claudia Taboada takes us along her amazing transformational journey from an overwhelmed and burned out autism caregiver who had lost her identity to an unstoppable badass mom (disability rights advocate, multiple marathon finisher, triathlete, entrepreneur, author, and speaker).

Claudia's journey began when her family was offered a guide dog for their severely autistic son Nico. She started to take their dog Sicas out for walks. These walks became two minute walks/two minute runs, then gradually she became an accidental jogger. Soon after, she would run her first 5K race and...the rest is history! This first race would be an epiphany and the kick in the butt she needed to get her life back! Claudia realized that she needed to take care of herself in order to have the health, the stamina and the longevity to care of Nico until her later years.

Claudia then went on a path of self-discovery and embarked on a mission to uncover the best self-care tools and strategies available to give her the vitality, the mental strength and the stress resilience to not only care for her son, but also seek self-fulfillment in all areas of her life.

Burnout to Unstoppable will empower you to take charge of your life and stop procrastinating about taking better care of your most valuable asset: YOU.

In this book, you will discover how to:

• Prioritize self-care;
• Boost your physical, mental and emotional health to preserve your longevity;
• Better manage stress;
• Tap into your passions to switch your mindset, reclaim your identity and go after your dreams.

In addition to giving practical self-care tips to her readers, the author's most valuable contribution is to shine a light on the very important, but rarely discussed issue of caregiver burnout. The author provides a body of research on this topic and how it affects the primary caregiver - who is usually a mother who has put her needs, her career ambitions and her aspirations aside in order to selflessly care for her children. In addition to the research, the author gives a scathing critique of the failure of the education system and governments to help special needs children and their families, specially as they become adults. Because once these children reach adulthood, there is little available to them in terms of health care, education, employment, housing and leisure activities.

Originally, the author wrote this book with overwhelmed autism moms in mind. But ultimately, this book is a must read for anyone leading a stressful life, including burned out parents of neurotypical children and caregivers of any kind - those of chronically ill and physically and mentally disabled family members. The message of this book is universal: YOU NEED TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF physically, mentally, and emotionally BEFORE you can take care of others.

In order to encourage her readers on their journey to make self-care a priority, the author provides a FREE Self-Care Workbook with actionable steps and accountability worksheets to empower their self-care goals.