This collection works on three levels: recognising warning signs before burnout takes hold, building recovery practices that actually work, and redesigning how the client works so the pattern doesn't repeat. It covers 9 topics across five stages. Each topic includes a micro lesson, blind spots, journal prompts, and a deliberately low-demand five-day habit builder.
The five stages:
Understanding the Pattern — How dedication becomes depletion: the burnout trajectory, the bank account metaphor of energy, and the identity trap that makes slowing down feel like losing yourself.
Early Warning Signs — Reading your own signals before they escalate: physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural indicators, building a personal early-warning system, and understanding the compounding cost of pushing through.
Recovery & Restoration — What actually restores energy versus what just numbs the discomfort: the difference between resting and collapsing, and matching recovery to the specific type of depletion.
Boundaries & Workload — Auditing responsibilities against capacity, making trade-offs visible, saying no without guilt, and having the workload conversation you've been avoiding.
Sustainable Pace — Daily, weekly, and seasonal patterns of intensity and recovery, matching energy to tasks, and designing a working life that can be maintained for years.