When the Role Starts Eating the Self
Burnout, Identity, and the Slow Return to a Life That Feels Like Your OwnBy Terence S. Phillips
Length49m
About this audiobook
When the Role Starts Eating the Self explores the hidden psychological cost of long-term success in high-performance careers. For many leaders, professionals, and executives, the role that once provided purpose and identity can slowly become something heavier—something that begins to consume the person behind the title.
This reflective audiobook examines the quiet progression of burnout, identity erosion, and emotional exhaustion that can occur when achievement, responsibility, and external validation gradually replace a deeper sense of self.
Through thoughtful storytelling and psychological insight, listeners are guided through an internal journey many professionals experience but rarely speak about—the realization that success may have come at a personal cost.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, General Fiction
Length49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Badge and the Blankness
2When Stress Becomes the Atmosphere
3The Brain Under Siege
4The Cost of Looking Fine
5The Stress That Comes Home
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6When the Role Replaces the Self
7The Grief of Recognition
8The Slow Return
9A Different Kind of Legacy
10Still Here
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