You Can’t Run on Empty:
Create More Rest & Self-Care in 21 Days
A Thriving as Your Authentic Self Book
A powerful ‘how-to’ take on making simple, effective self-care practices part of your life.
Do you ever feel like you’re giving so much to work, family, and daily life that there’s nothing left?
You Can’t Run on Empty: Create More Rest & Self-Care in 21 Days by Ann Weiser Cornell
If you’re always pushing through and telling yourself you’ll rest later, this book offers a compassionate alternative. Rather than one-size-fits-all solutions, You Can’t Run on Empty helps you listen inward to find what nourishment, rest, and support mean for you, so you can create small, sustainable changes toward a more well-rested, self-loving life.
Note: This is a book format of an on-demand course we teach (also called You Can’t Run on Empty).
“It’s as important to quiet the obsessing mind as it is to rest the body.”
― Ann Weiser Cornell
Is it Difficult to Make Time for Yourself?
Maybe you:
- Resist self-care because it’s become one more “should” in your life
- Have trouble prioritizing yourself
- Reach for distractions that don’t really energize you
This powerful, practical guide helps you recognize the subtle ways exhaustion and self-neglect take hold, offering you a gentler way forward. Through simple reflections and compassionate practices, you’ll learn how to listen to your own needs and create self-care that truly supports your life (without guilt or pressure).
No matter what life looks like now, You Can’t Run on Empty meets you exactly where you are, and offers you a clear, step-by-step path toward a kinder, happier life.
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“You can learn to trust your body’s sense of what you need, and when.”
― Ann Weiser Cornell
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Other Books in the Thriving as Your Authentic Self Series
- 21 Days to Better Boundaries: A Guide to Setting Boundaries with Kindness + Compassion
- The Gifts in Aging: It’s Not All Downhill from Here
Coming soon: Growing Closer: 21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging
Prefer Paperbacks? We’ve got you covered…
You Can’t Run on Empty is also available as a lovely book you can hold in your hands.
118 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″ | $12.99 (plus any applicable taxes, shipping, and handling)
What People Are Saying
(this endorsement is for the on-demand course version of this book)
“Before this course I didn’t realize I had gotten myself into a rigorous daily schedule of things that had once been fun but had eventually become just ‘to do’s’. That left me feeling trapped and overwhelmed. Anything that interrupted my ‘schedule’ was at best an annoyance and at worst an unwanted intrusion. After the course, I realized what was happening and found ways to reclaim my time. I do things now because I want to, not because I have to. It’s so wonderful to look at my list each morning and then ask myself, ‘What do I WANT to do today?‘” Tom F.
About the Author
Ann Weiser Cornell created Inner Relationship Focusing with her long-time colleague, Barbara McGavin, to help people learn to listen compassionately to all the inner voices, including the self-blaming ones. It changed their lives, and it became their mission to help others transform as well.
Since 1985, Ann’s been teaching this practical, revolutionary process to people all over the world. With You Can’t Run on Empty, you get the benefit of Ann’s expertise and the chance to practice a clear way of setting boundaries with her gentle, compassionate guidance.
Ann is the author of Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change, The Power of Focusing, The Radical Acceptance of Everything, and Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck. Today she is internationally recognized as one of the leading innovators and theoreticians of Focusing.
