[Note: this post was originally published on Substack February 26, 2025] 

Announcing my new community!

If you're a regular reader here, you know that this Substack has been about my journey through recovering from burnout.

Part of my healing and recovery from burnout has been learning about many ...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack January 11, 2025] 

My healing journey continues

The thing about healing from burnout is that there really isn’t an “end.” There isn’t a day the cast comes off and you’re back to full health, the way you might be with a broken arm. It’s a long, ...

 [Note: this post was originally published on Substack June 8, 2023] 

Happy first anniversary!

 I started this post, like I always do, by writing a draft, then letting it marinate. This one had to marinate longer than I originally had planned. I wound up writing a completely new post that shifted ...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack April 18, 2023] 

The story around my jar of Peanut M&Ms

I’ve been feeling stressed lately, which means I've been numbing myself a lot to try and cope.  It’s not my preferred way of getting through the day... anymore. I used to use numbing behav...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack March 02, 2023]

Learning to let go

I would not be able to speak now about the things that I experienced without the lessons I learned about "forgiveness". I'm not talking about the "forgive and forget" that I heard all through my childhood. Tha...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack January 25, 2023]

A little about why I'm writing

Such a beautiful moment. A young girl running carefree through a field of dandelions with nothing but the joy of childhood to look forward to.  

This isn’t me and this never happened in my life....

Hi friends,

If you've been following along, you know that I started telling my healing journey from burnout over on Substack a couple of years ago, when it was still a small and cozy place where you could have a quiet conversation. It was a great place to start out trying my hand at writing, especi...

One of the things I have learned as I recover from burnout is how much I fell into a “People Pleaser” role from a very young age. While that is a very valid set of characteristics and way of describing the behavior where we put everyone else before ourselves, I believe the way Emily Nagoski, PhD and...