Burnout taught me lessons no book or training ever could.
These 100 Burnout Lessons capture what I learned through collapse, recovery and the long process of coming back to myself — physically, emotionally, mentally and energetically.
The lessons explore burnout through the lens of lived experience, modern understanding and holistic spiritual wisdom, without pathologising or oversimplifying what is often a deeply personal journey.
They’re offered here as a companion, not a prescription — to help you find language for what you may be living through and reassurance that nothing about your experience is imagined or wrong.
My burnout did not happen overnight. I had signs and symptoms but I was ignoring them. I was too busy delivering value to my employer. As my workload and stress levels kept increasing, so started the symptoms, such as heart palpitations, shortness of breath, chronic stomach aches, panic attacks, RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury), decreasing eyesight (and I had more grey hair than my mum). The amount of daily / weekly rest was not enough to compensate for the vast energy consumption at work. Finally, I exhausted my system to such levels that I collapsed and could not get up from bed for months. On top of that, my RSI got worse and my whole right arm, neck and back got paralysed. When you are like a vegetable in bed, not even able to look after yourself, of what value are you to yourself or others? Panic, pain, fear of future, desperation and even thoughts of taking my life were my companions then and that was a very dark time of my life.
If you are ready to leap off the mad hamster wheel of stress and anxiety in your life and shift into a deep space of inner peace, then I invite you to get on a call with me.
On this call, we will to map out your wellbeing & lifestyle makeover and put you in the driver’s seat of your health, life and work.