personal growth

when we are experiencing a strong stress response, we can use powerful questions to guide us towards wisdom and away from reactivity. And towards amazing decision-making.

When I did this interview, I’d never actually met Tris Thorp. Yet from the moment I set eyes on her during our Zoom working calls, I was blown away — smart, funny, beautiful, accomplished, and deeply inspiring. Am I gushing? She also drops F-bombs on the regular, which put the Australian in me at ease right away. Writing my book on burnout, I’ve thought of Tris often. Not only because she went through a burnout herself, but because she took the lessons of burnout to next-l

This might sound counter-intuitive, but burnout can be a gift. Burnout creates space for bold decisions and positive change — and as grittily painful as burning out is, it comes with some upsides. Let me explain.

Appreciating that I could actually leave the law firm after my burnout caused pure freedom to suddenly course through my veins. It was as if I’d been having an out of body experience, and now I could feel my own heartbeat and see through my own eyes. I left those offices a changed woman.

What wellbeing means, how it relates to happiness and burnout – and why it matters.