Personal Burnout

I burned out while working for myself - a unique experience when you’re both the leader and the employee. There was no one to blame. Only patterns to examine.

I tried blaming my discipline, my boundaries, my mindset, my capacity. I also tried blaming my landlord, my patients, my practice focus, and more. I assumed if I could just fix myself, or change everything else - everything would work again. What that experience taught me, very clearly, was that blame and shame don’t create clarity and don’t fix burnout. They create silence, exhaustion, and smaller thinking. Burnout wasn’t proof that I was broken. It was information about misalignment.