Why Am I So Tired? How to Use the
Restoring Resourcefulness Tools
to Relieve Zoom Exhaustion

by Vandana Verma Ph.D

We’ve all heard about it and most of us have experienced it. What is Zoom fatigue/exhaustion and what can we do to minimize it effects? Since the pandemic began many of us have used video conferencing to communicate, both at work and for many activities that we used to do in person.  Excessive screen time and the energy needed to focus results in depleted aliveness for many of  us who are spending all day online.

A member of our Restoring Resourcefulness faculty, Vandana Verma is a scientist with B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc degrees from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK.  She has worked in her career as a cardiovascular research scientist and as a faculty member at the University of Michigan. She currently works at NASA studying the effects of spaceflight on physiology. Vandana has completed a 2 year leadership and transformation program with the Hendricks Institute and is a Big Leap coach. Her areas of research include the biology of flow and how fear changes our physiology.

Click here to read Vandana’s article about Zoom Exhaustion.