Corporatology
Thanksgiving Edition: Burnout Blinds Us to Blessings
Burnout isn’t just “being tired.” It’s a full-scale operational failure of the mind, body, and soul — a quiet hemorrhaging of energy, clarity, purpose, and presence.
Jenika Denery
Jenika Denery writes at the crossroads of burnout and becoming. A recovering corporatologist, she now turns white papers into poetry, guided by Jeremiah 6:16 and the call to the ancient path of rest and restoration.
Corporatology
Corporatology 001: Corporate America Is Not Your Family
Real family doesn’t come with fine print. Real belonging doesn’t require self-erasure. And real identity doesn’t crumble when a system stops clapping.
Corporatology
Corporatology: Prologue
Corporate America has its own gospel. It preaches early mornings, late nights, and just one more email. It's the sanctification of schedules, Slack messages, meetings, and working lunches. It baptizes burnout as ambition. It calls exhaustion excellence.
Corporatology
Corporatology: Author's Note
Structure, for me, is not the enemy. It is the scaffolding that allows me to build calm in the storm. I’ve spent the last several years of my career inside the corporate machine.