New book, coming in spring 2027
The Way Out of Burnout
Find and remove the causes, recover, and never hit the wall again.
This is the map I should have had in 2003. The book gathers more than twenty years of experience in helping people out of exhaustion and burnout: how you find the causes, remove them, rebuild yourself and prevent it from happening again.
Infinite Vision Publishing, 2027, in Norwegian and English. Price and ordering to come.
About the book
The book I wish had existed in 2003
When my body collapsed on December 23, 2003, there was no map for the road ahead. The doctors found nothing wrong, and vocational rehabilitation was the next suggestion. From 2004 I used everything I had to find out what was actually wrong, and what actually helped.
This book is not an academic study. It is a practical guide, written by someone who has walked the way himself and knows how demanding it can be. I spent many years and large sums finding the answers. You do not have to do the same.
The book builds on the system I use with my clients: four categories of causes, four phases out, and the tools that let you work actively on your own recovery. You can read it from cover to cover, or use it as a reference and jump to the chapter you need right now.
The contents
Five parts, 27 chapters
The book takes you from mapping to action plan, in the order that gives the best results.
- Mapping and understandingWhat burnout is and how it develops, and how you map your own situation: the self-analysis, the twelve stages, measuring chronic stress, the strategy and action plan, and how to deal with your doctor, your employer and the welfare system.
- The physiological causesHormones, vitamin deficiencies, the gut and the immune system, MCAS and sleep: the physical causes that are often overlooked, and the way out of them.
- The psychological causesLow mood and depression, trauma and addiction, the liberating power of forgiveness, and twelve practical tips for finding the way out of low mood.
- The behavioral causesSelf-regulation, healthy boundaries, perfectionism, the screen that eats the brain, forest bathing, and goal setting that works when your energy is low.
- Hope and the action planThe power of hope, not as positive thinking but as an inner flame, and the action plan with the measures that actually work, in the right order.
Written to be used, not just read.
Every chapter has exercises and reflection questions, and the workbook gathers them in one place.
For readers
More than a book
As a reader you register a member account on the book’s own pages, and get everything the book refers to.
The workbook
All the exercises and reflection questions from the book gathered in one place, with the burnout self-analysis, the twelve stages and an example of a completed health biography. Print it out and work with it, preferably together with a guide.
The interviews
Meet the people from the book: Camilla, Mari, Atle, Cathrine Emilie and Stephanie tell about the way out, and Camilla tells ten years later how she has avoided burning out again. Recorded in Norwegian.
Online course in goal achievement
Eight short videos, an hour and a half in total, plus downloadable material: the system I use myself to get more done in less time, without stress. In Norwegian so far.
Five-minute meditation
The online course “5-minute meditation for effective stress reduction and a quiet mind”, in seven modules, with a breathing technique, a simple daily exercise and a guided meditation with music. In Norwegian so far.
The reader pages open when the book is published.
From the book
The people in the book
In the book you meet several of the people I have guided: what became the turning point, and how they not only found their way back to everyday life, but built a life that was better than the one they had before they hit the wall.
“The best thing I have ever done was to study with Pål-Esben Wanvig. He helped me find my way out of my burnout. Today I work and live very well without these challenges. I have changed my mindset and gained good techniques that I use every day, so that I can avoid hitting the wall again.”
Camilla Holm Osberg
From the book The Way Out of Burnout · Translated from Norwegian
Camilla had struggled with the health care system for more than eight years when she came to me. After a few months she was back in full-time work.
You also meet Mari, who collapsed in her early twenties with ME, Atle, the finance manager who took his work home, Cathrine Emilie, who found her way out of a deep life crisis with the forest as her helper, and Stephanie, who lost her husband and found the spark of life again through forgiveness.
The author
Pål-Esben Wanvig
Civil engineer, shaman and life guide. I hit the wall myself in 2003 and have since spent more than twenty years and more than 35,000 hours finding out what actually works: functional medicine, neuropsychology, behavioral psychology, traditional Chinese medicine, shamanism and much more. Since 2004 I have guided many clients and students out of exhaustion and burnout, and I am the founder of Yggdrasil Shamanic School. My first book is published in English as Beyond Positive Psychology: A Journey from Burnout to Enlightenment.
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The system, the signs and four things you can do today are on the page about the way out of burnout.