The Blog
Essays on anxiety, burnout and the private cost of high performance.
Clinically grounded writing for people who are excellent at their lives and exhausted by them. If something here lands, the next step is a free discovery call.
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The Cortisol Curve Nobody Taught You to Read
Your body has a built-in recalibration system. Most of us have never been taught how to read it and by the time it stops working, we call the result “just…
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The Analog Relationship: What We Lose When Everything’s Posted
A few months ago, I was at a cottage retreat and awoke the first day at 6am. I found that first instinct was to explore the new warming comforting environment…
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You Have Everything. So Why Does It Feel Like Nothing?
On the meaning crisis — what it is, why it’s targeting the most successful people you know, and what the neuroscience says about how to move through it. There’s a…
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Burnout in High-Achieving Adults: Evidence-Based Solutions That Actually Work
Burnout is not laziness. It’s similar to a flame burning brightly and then intermittedly. It is chronic workplace stress plus broken recovery. Here is what the research says works: work…
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The Burnout Paradox: Do Perfect Secondary School Grades Predict Long-Term Success?
(from the perspective of an 18+ years educator) There is this overwhelming assumption in competitive academic environments: In that, high grades in secondary school equal long-term success. It feels logical.…
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High-Functioning Anxiety: The Hidden Engine Behind Overperformance
Some of the most impressive academics and leaders I work with are anxious. Not chaotic anxious. High-functioning anxious. They are prepared. Precise. Reliable. Strategic. Always ahead. And inside, they are…
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Nervous System Regulation for Leaders: Why Strategy Fails Without It
You can have the best strategy in the room. If your nervous system is dysregulated, you will still make reactive decisions. (And perhaps it feels authentic and natural but it…
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Leadership fatigue is rarely about “difficult people.”
It is usually about porous boundaries, unexamined ego, and overextended identity. It is liberating to come to a realization about oneself. When leaders say they are exhausted by others, what…
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Not Resolutions. Reconstruction.
Every December 31, the internet fills with declarations: New Year, New Me.And by mid-February, 80 to 90 percent of those resolutions collapse. That isn’t because people lack willpower. It’s because…
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When Grace Meets Ingenuity: A Return to Abrielle
Last weekend’s birthday brunch began with stepping out into the bitter cold and a pounding headache but we were determined to festively embrace my favourite season after these last few…
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The Death of Self: Why Shedding Old Beliefs Is the Beginning of Becoming Real
Most people think reinvention is about becoming someone shiny and new. In reality, the deepest form of growth comes from letting parts of you die — the outdated identities, inherited…
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The Accident That Rewired My Leadership — And Why It Matters for How You Lead.
I’ve been thinking a lot about rest and leadership lately. After the accident, there was a stretch of time where I found I was questioning myself. My focus, my values,…
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