The Documentary
A hybrid feature-length documentary narrated by John R. Toohey-Morales, Emmy Award–winning meteorologist and hurricane specialist, Third Degree Burnout connects the dots between food systems, emotional exhaustion, and ecological collapse – through real stories, skits, science, and solutions.
Burnout
Burnout is often seen as a workplace phenomenon, rarely examined through the lens of dietary preferences, lifestyle, or social dynamics beyond employment.
Third Degree Burnout – A Survivor’s Guide explores the connection between agriculture, food, medicine, society, politics, and the planet, reframing exhaustion as not merely an individual struggle, but as a systemic, ecological, and cultural emergency.
The Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine
The framework that Nivi followed to recover from burnout is featured in Third Degree Burnout - A Survivor’s Guide.
This framework, along with several other evidence-based approaches to personal and planetary healing, are brought to life in the documentary.
Third Degree Burnout – A Survivor’s Guide weaves these practices into personal stories and expert insights, showing audiences how recovery is possible at both an individual and societal level.
Building the Narrative
“Every voice here is both expert and survivor.”
Personal pain. Planetary collapse. A survivor’s guide for navigating it all.
Narrated by Emmy Award-winning meteorologist and hurricane specialist John R. Toohey-Morales, the Third Degree Burnout documentary weaves together:
Twenty-six interviews with climate science, medical, psychology, and public health experts
Fifteen emotionally-charged dramatic skits
Original B-roll, archival footage, and storytelling that reveals invisible systems underlying personal and planetary burnout
