Every organization expects HR to absorb its anxiety, mediate its conflicts, and protect its people, often without anyone asking who’s protecting HR. The result is a function full of leaders quietly running on empty, performing wellness while privately drowning in it. This isn’t a burnout problem. It’s a structural one, and it requires more than self-care to solve. Dr. Jarik Conrad gives HR leaders a framework for sustaining themselves in a role designed to deplete them, drawing on behavioral science, emotional intelligence, and two decades of HR leadership at the highest levels.