Alaska’s burnout problem is bigger than stress

Alaskans pride themselves on resilience. We work long hours, adapt to difficult conditions, raise families through dark winters and carry a culture that values toughness and independence.

But resilience without recovery eventually becomes exhaustion.

Across healthcare, more providers are seeing the same troubling pattern: people who are chronically fatigued, mentally overloaded, emotionally strained and physically stuck in stress physiology that never truly powers down. Patients increasingly report poor sleep, headaches, anxiety, digestive issues, chronic muscular …