07/11/2025
💬 From Burnout to Building Something New
Sometimes it’s not one big crash that breaks you.
It’s the slow, quiet erosion of holding it all together for too long.
I burned out — fully.
I was working as a controller in a pharmaceutical company that was constantly in crisis mode.
Everyone around me was running on empty.
And so was I.
Fear of not being good enough kept me pushing harder.
Thoughts of failure ran in circles at night, fuelling the downward spiral.
Until one Thursday afternoon, I walked out of the office and never went back.
What followed were six months of deep reflection, coaching, and therapy.
That’s when I discovered coaching — and realised there were opportunities out there I never knew existed, simply because I hadn’t seen them yet.
I went back to university.
Got my diploma in Coaching and Organisational Development, then a Master’s in Project Management and Organisation.
Later, I joined Accenture and spent nearly a decade there — learning what real transformation looks like, what leadership demands, and what burnout costs when it’s ignored.
Over the years, I saw the same pattern repeating:
high-performers who were exhausted.
Brilliant people doubting themselves.
Leaders trying to prove they were good enough instead of feeling it.
That’s when I realised — you can’t think your way out of anxiety, or strategise your way out of fear.
The problem is rarely a lack of skill. It’s the lens you see yourself through.
So I built something new.
A practice that combines executive coaching with hypnotherapy and EMDR — deep work first, then strategy and implementation.
Because lasting change doesn’t start with pushing harder.
It starts with changing how your mind works underneath it all.
If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone in it.
This is why I share what I’ve learned — so others don’t have to reach the breaking point before they find a better way.
