Go from anxious, fatigued and isolated to grounded, energised and connected through three months of somatic coaching designed to help you heal your nervous system and regain your energy, your drive and your confidence.
Burnout doesn’t have to last forever. But most burned out leaders and entrepreneurs struggle for too long trying to heal by themselves because of shame and self blame.
Put yourself on the road to recovery by reconnecting with your body, reinventing your relationship to your emotions and rediscovering disowned parts of yourself.
Does it feel like you’ve been stuck in burnout forever?
I struggle to summon the energy to complete daily tasks that used to feel easy.
I feel trapped in a state of low mood, low expectations and low self-esteem.
I feel betrayed by my body’s frequent aches, pains and illnesses.
I struggle to sleep at night but then I want to spend all day in bed.
I feel overwhelmed by the needs of those around me and despair at ever being able to meet them.
I find myself caught in bouts of unshakable sadness, anger, irritability and apathy.
Burnout is hell. I know. I’ve been there.
One minute you’re speeding along at eighty miles per hour, checking off one thing after another from your to-do list and being the person other people expect you to be in all aspects of life. You’re making progress in your career, your relationships are running smoothly, your skills and capacities are growing. You’re moving the needle on all those things that you’re pretty sure you think you kind of want, and then somehow, the wheels just fly off…
And you find yourself at the bottom of a deep ravine, without the skills, energy or know-how to climb out again.
Your career is in trouble, your relationships are in trouble, your mental health is in trouble and your dreams are in trouble. And whereas in the past you’d have been up on your feet fighting like crazy for all of them, now you have barely enough motivation to care.
It’s unbelievably frustrating: the person you used to be seems only the breadth of a shadow away, and yet somehow the gap is utterly unclosable.
Your willpower, which you’ve always relied upon to get you through anything, is no longer enough.
Brute force can’t be applied here.
Overcoming burnout means finding a new approach.
New resources to be recruited for the journey.
New energies.
New ways of being.
Your burnout is a sign that there are parts of you that have been neglected for too long.
Parts that you have been choosing to hide or deny.
These parts hold the key to your healing.
And now is the time to awaken them.
The missing piece of the puzzle: your body.
The physical symptoms of burnout don’t come unannounced. Your body will have been sending you signals for some time that something is wrong, but you haven’t been tuned into them because you’ve been too distracted by the things you have to do.
Our culture, especially in the realm of business, places a lot of emphasis on doing, and thinking, but not nearly enough on feeling.
We are encouraged to pack our feelings away and deal with them in private.
But most of us, trying to live up to the ideal of self-sufficiency, never get around to attending to our repressed feelings, until they’ve built up so much that they explode in physical symptoms.
At the end of that road lies chronic illness, desperate loneliness and paralysing anxiety.
It is time to rediscover your capacity to feel your body and your emotions.
Somatic coaching will help you reconnect to your body.
It’s time to…
Reconnecting to your body means reconnecting to your energy, to your drive and to the capacity to get pleasure from life, work and relationships.
Stop struggling alone and save yourself years of suffering, isolation and lost productivity.
Yes, you can go it alone, like you always have, and you will find your way out of burnout.
For me it took years.
I tried psychotherapy, meditation, yoga, massage, psychedelics, breathwork, bioenergetics, herbs, qigong, cold water therapy, acupuncture, shamanic healing, chanting, emotion release, reflexology, craniosacral therapy, reiki and more.
Some of these were very helpful. Some of them not so much.
If I’d had a guide…
- to help me understand what I needed to do and in what order
- to hold me accountable to the healing goals that I set myself
- to hold a compassionate and non-judgemental space in which I could explore the old behavioural patterns which led to burnout in the first place
then I would have saved a lot of time and placed a lot less stress on my family and finances.
The upside is that all my experiences of failure have yielded a comprehensive and embodied understanding of the path into and out of burnout that can be put to use in your own healing journey.
Overcome your barriers to healing and find your way back to vibrancy.
You need help getting around…
I will help you connect with…
The goal is to integrate mind and body.
When you bring back together all the splintered parts of yourself into a harmonious whole, where each part is valued and cherished, then you will naturally regain your passion, your drive and your energy.
And your life will naturally open up to more connection, more love and more joy.
Get clarity, direction and confidence with three months of one-to-one somatic coaching.
Set goals for your healing journey and make steady progress towards them with
- Six 50-minute coaching sessions;
- Six 30-minute support & accountability calls;
- Personalised support in the form of recorded guided practices and exercises each week;
- Customised worksheets and journaling templates;
- A compassionate container in which to explore your relationship to your emotions, develop greater body awareness, and find love for previously disowned parts of yourself.
Apply today for in-person or online coaching.
12-week programme
The six 50-minute coaching sessions can be conducted over Zoom or at comfortable, confidential rooms in North East London.
You’re the perfect candidate for this work because…
- You appreciate that while the initial approach often needs to be slow and gentle, healing your nervous system takes effort and a serious investment in yourself;
- You recognise that your burnout is a call to make major changes in the way you approach the world, work and relationships;
- You’ve already done some self-exploration through other forms of therapy, spiritual practices, self-help books or coaching, but it feels like a major part of the puzzle has been missing;
- You’re into music and dancing (even if you think you’re not very good at it);
- You have no problem admitting that you have no idea what’s going on;
- You are aware that you are an animal;
- You also know that you are more than an animal;
- You have an open mind when it comes to other people’s reality tunnels – eastern medicine, ayurveda, astrology and animism are all of interest to you.
We probably won’t click if…
- You’re looking for a quick fix or for some secret trick or hack that’s going to magically erase your symptoms overnight;
- You’re not prepared to go into uncomfortable territory in order to learn more about yourself;
- You want to learn how to control your feelings rather than get better at feeling your feelings;
- You want to go over and over the same old stories of how people in your life, or the business culture, or capitalism, or racism, or sexism etc are the cause of your problems instead of looking for the cause in you;
- You want to go back to living in the exact same way you were before you burned out – the same harmful ways of working, the same unhelpful ways of relating, the same denial;
- You can’t handle looking silly;
- You’re afraid to try.
Ready to begin your escape from the cycle of burnout-recovery-burnout and regain your energy, purpose and drive?
Just answer a few questions and I’ll be in touch to arrange a discovery call.