Insights on Burnout, Recovery, TCM & Women's Health

You knew it was going to hurt. You told yourself you were prepared. Maybe it was a job that ended. A relationship that dissolved slowly and then all at once. A move across continents that was supposed to feel like freedom but arrived wrapped in grief. A diagnosis. A friendship that quietly disappeared. A version of yourself you could no longer locate. You gave yourself a week, maybe two. You cried when you needed to. You showed up anyway. And then, weeks or months later, you

You came here for a reason. Maybe it was the job, a role you could not turn down, a company that believed in you before you fully believed in yourself. Maybe it was love. Maybe it was the version of yourself you were trying to become: international, capable, free from the weight of who you were expected to be back home. You built a life here. You learned the bureaucracy, the public transport, the unspoken rules about when to be quiet and when to push back. You showed up every

On the 1st of April, I stood in front of a room of tired, ambitious women at a workshop on burnout recovery. I had taught this kind of workshop before. I had shared my burnout story before. But this time I said something I had never said out loud to a room of strangers. I told them I am AUDHD. Both ADHD and autistic. Diagnosed at 40, after years of wondering, and then years of actually looking. The words came out steadier than I expected. What I did not expect was how many wo

You came here with a plan. A career to build. A version of yourself you were finally going to become. And for a while, it worked. You navigated the bureaucracy, learned a new city, showed up every day in a language that was not yours. You built something real. But somewhere along the way, the energy ran out. You are still showing up. Still delivering. But something is off. You cannot rest even when you have time. The things that used to excite you feel flat. And a small, quie

Your body knows it is spring before your mind does. A restlessness arrives. An urgency you cannot quite name. The feeling that something in you wants to push through, expand, begin, even when nothing on your calendar has changed. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is not coincidence. It is the Liver speaking. Why spring belongs to the Liver In TCM, each season corresponds to an organ system, an element, and a quality of energy. Spring belongs to the Liver and Gallbladder.

If you moved to Berlin to build something meaningful and now find yourself exhausted, disconnected, and unsure what went wrong — this is for you. A guide to burnout recovery for expats in Berlin.

I performed in front of thousands as a child. Then I buried my voice under society's expectations — and two burnouts later, I found it again. Here's what chanting taught me about burnout recovery, the nervous system, and coming home to yourself.

When someone comes to me in burnout, one of the first things I notice is not just what they're feeling but where in their body they're holding it. The tight jaw. The hollow behind the sternum. The shoulders that never fully lower. The bone deep exhaustion that sleep doesn't touch. The constant low hum of dread. Western medicine tends to treat these as separate symptoms. Traditional Chinese Medicine sees them as a map, a map of where burnout is living in your specific body, an