Burnout & stress
Learn how to recognize the signs of burnout, develop coping mechanisms, and create a healthier work-life balance. Our contributors provide practical tips and expert advice to help you reduce stress and prevent burnout, ensuring better mental and physical health.
Why Does It Feel Like Something is Wrong, Even When Everything is Fine?
From the outside, everything looks fine. Your career is stable. Your relationships are healthy enough. You’ve worked hard to build a life that once felt far away. Maybe you finally have the house, the...
Five Ways to Rebuild Your Energy Without Burnout
Starting again doesn’t have to mean pushing harder. Sometimes, the most powerful progress comes from rebuilding your energy in a way that lasts, one small step at a time. Learning to begin again...
Change When Change Feels Impossible
This article is based on my upcoming book, Change When Change Feels Impossible, which explores why so many people struggle to sustain meaningful change despite genuinely wanting their lives to improve. Over the years...
The Three Zones Before Burnout, and What to Do at Each One
If you feel unusually overwhelmed, tense and tired, you might be wondering whether it's normal stress or something more. Burnout doesn't arrive all at once. It follows a predictable pattern, and once you...
Are You Managing Burnout Symptoms While the Real Problem Goes Untreated?
I had a client arrive at Africa Wellness not long ago. She had not slept properly in years and I mean years. She had seen psychiatrists. She had tried antidepressants. She had taken the breaks her family kept...
3 Simple Ways to Shift From Tensing Up to Softening
Stress is an overwhelming feeling we all face, yet many of us have become so accustomed to it that we no longer recognize it for what it is. Our bodies are constantly giving us signals, asking us to pause...
The Truth About Sacrifice, Survival, and Building Anyway
People love to celebrate the highlight reel, the launch, the success story, the six-figure business, the weight loss transformation, the graduation photo, the polished social media post. But very few...
You Do Not Have Burnout – Why the Highly Successful Woman Is Actually in a 'Liminal Squeeze'
As a highly successful woman, your entire life has been built on your ability to solve complex problems. So naturally, when you hit a wall of profound exhaustion, your first instinct is to manage it like a...
Why Your Nervous System is the Missing Link in Burnout Recovery and What Science Says About It
Most high-achieving women believe they’re exhausted because they’re doing too much. Too many responsibilities. Too many decisions. Too much pressure. So the solution seems obvious: take time off, get more rest...
You’re Not Behind, You’re Recalibrating
There comes a moment in midlife when many women quietly look around at their lives and wonder: “Did I miss my moment?” Careers may no longer feel fulfilling. Relationships shift. Children grow older.
7 Stress Management Tools That Work for People Who Think They've Tried Everything
Emma G is a singer, songwriter, TEDx speaker, and author of Mental Health Sounds Like This – A Creative Blueprint for Healing, Mindfulness, and Self Discovery through Music. Beyond her work as an empowerment...
Why Rest Isn’t Working and How Your Nervous System Contributes to Burnout
Rest is often treated as the solution to exhaustion, but for many people, it doesn’t actually produce recovery. They stop, sleep, step away from demand, and still feel completely depleted. What’s often missed...
Why Smart, Successful People Still Struggle with Chronic Stress Symptoms
Many smart, successful, high-functioning people struggle with chronic stress symptoms like anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, muscle tension, digestive issues, headaches, brain fog, emotional overwhelm, burnout...
The Cost of Being The Strong One – What High-Functioning Women Carry in Silence
She’s the one everyone leans on. The one who holds it together. She’s the one that is usually the first one in the office and the last one to leave each day. Raise your hand if this sounds familiar. You’re the...
Resilience is Not What You Think – Why So Many People Struggle in Times of Change
We live in a world that praises resilience. Be strong. Stay focused. Adapt quickly. Perform under pressure. It sounds convincing. Almost admirable. And yet, if you look closely, many of the people trying...
