Rising From the Ashes: My Journey Through Burnout and Back to Purpose
It's been nearly five years since I last blogged. Five years of silence that spoke volumes about a reality I never thought I'd face: burning out on my own passion. Today, I'm here to share the raw truth about burnout, how it found me even in the work I loved, and the tools that brought me back-not to where I was, but to somewhere better. When Your Passion Becomes Your Breaking Point If you'd told me in 2019 that I would burn out on psychology-on helping people-I would have laughed. This was my calling, my purpose, the work that made me feel alive. But burnout doesn't ask permission, and it certainly doesn't care about your passion. The pandemic lockdowns arrived, and like many of you, my world turned inside out. Suddenly I was homeschooling my child while trying to maintain my practice, support clients through collective trauma, and hold my family together. The boundaries between work and home dissolved completely. There was no escape, no reprie...
