Picture a four-year-old in the back of a truck, bouncing down a dirt road in the back woods of Ohio. That was me. My uncle was driving, and as we rolled up on a little family cemetery he turned around and barked, “Hold your breath!” I sucked in air so fast I nearly turned blue.…
A no-shame checklist for the woman who has been running on empty for a while now. You can be successful, genuinely loved by your people, and still feel like the spark quietly went out somewhere around your 43rd birthday. If you have been wondering whether a retreat for burned out women is something you actually…
I want to talk about where you might be right now. You wake up already behind. You pour everyone else’s coffee, answer everyone else’s questions, and somewhere between the carpool and the inbox you lost track of the woman who used to laugh loud and dance in the kitchen. She is still in there. She…
I just spent eight days sipping my way through the Champagne region of France, and I came home with a souvenir I did not expect. Not a scarf. Not a case of bubbles (okay, also that). What I carried home was a lesson about burnout, and it came straight from the vines. One thing nobody…
You did the work. You built the career, raised the kids, kept the household running, and showed up for everyone who needed you. From the outside, your life looks like a win. So why does it feel like you’ve quietly gone missing from your own story? This is one of the most common things I…
You’re not sick. You’re not depressed (at least not officially). You’re not lazy. But something is off, and you know it. You look in the mirror and wonder where the woman you used to be went. You used to have energy. You used to laugh more. You used to care about things beyond just getting…
You used to know exactly who you were. You had energy, you had opinions, you had spark. Now most days you’re just getting through it, running on empty, wondering when you started feeling so disconnected from yourself. If that sounds familiar, you’re not broken. You’re burned out. And a retreat for burned out women might…