Moments of Clarity: Reflections on Burnout and Resilience IN HIGHER ED How WRITING saved My Life C. Jenise Williamson The many moments that made up a string of years of burnout were hard to ignore, and I felt incapacitated to do anything about them. While my friends and acquaintances were publishing their stories and novels, attending conferences, and giving and taking summer workshops, my life simmered in a stew of mourning, episodic expressions of neurodiversity, and teaching. I did go to conferences and workshops, and I did give presentations, but doing that wasn’t enough to remedy my burnout. Fortunately, at that time, I was teaching at a small college whose expectations of accountability were weak. Like teachers with their students, administrators get from their instructors the level they inspire. And I identified all too readily with an institution that was itself suffering from burnout and didn’t expect much in terms of publishing. At the beginning of m...