"As a therapist, I've read countless books that promise restoration but few that deliver it the way Protect Your Energy does. Zabie Yamasaki writes with the rare combination of clinical wisdom, lived experience, and deep humanity. Every page is infused with her heart-centered approach--an invitation not only to soothe the individual nervous system but to imagine what collective, systemic healing could look like if rest and compassion were at its core. This isn't a book about quick fixes or self-optimization. It's a reclamation. It is remembering that tending to our own energy is an act of resistance in a culture that profits from our exhaustion. Zabie's voice is both balm and blueprint: gentle, grounded, and profoundly transformative. Protect Your Energy will become a companion for anyone who has ever over-given, over-functioned, or quietly burned out while caring for others.

I'll be recommending it to my clients, my colleagues, and every healer I know. Protect Your Energy is a meditation in tending to ourselves in a world that encourages and rewards functioning from a place of over-productivity. This book changed my life." -- Sahar Martinez, Psy.D, LMFT, PMH-C , founder, The Process Wellness Collective " Protect Your Energy is the book I have been longing for--for myself and for those I love--as we try not just to survive but truly thrive amidst the heartbreaks of our world. It invites us into a slower, softer, and simpler way of being so we can listen to our deepest needs and honor them without apology. Zabie helps us to know that relief is possible and living with ease is within our power." -- Eileen S.

Rosete , author of To Tend and To Hold.