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

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.

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

If you're in burnout, you've probably already tried the obvious things — rest, time off, cutting back. And yet the exhaustion remains. That's because burnout isn't a productivity problem. It's a nervous system crisis. EFT tapping works at that level — here's the science from both Western neuroscience and 3,000-year-old TCM.