* You still feel drained even after you take time out for yourself?

* The effort to accomplish all your daily goals is so exhausting that sometimes you'd rather not try at all?

* You just can't "make the effort" anymore?

* You totally collapse, give in and give up?

"The Emotional Energy Factor" addresses the widespread problem of emotional fatigue, and proposes 25 hands-on solutions -- and salvation -- for the emotional-energy deprived.

In a series of short, focused chapters, Mira Kirshenbaum (author of the bestselling book, Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay) -- in her trademark warm, accessible, and empathetic style -- diagnoses issues and offers solutions that she has gathered over 25 years of work in the field of psychotherapy. She includes many stories from real people that readers will be able to relate to. You'll learn how to accomplish more and struggle less; feel more energetic, more fulfilled; and most importantly, build of the kind of total emotional energy that will help sustain you throughout your life.

Chapters include:

*Don't Get Stuck with Your Losses

*Guilt Is Stupid

*It Can Pay to Splurge

* Why Should a Barrel Full of Monkeys Have More Fun than You?

*Envy is Poison

*The Hell With Other People's Expectations

*Clear the Decks

*Do Less