HEALTHY. CAPABLE
IN THAT ORDER
You were born well, and you know deep down what keeps you that way.
Then life got ambitious or demanding and somewhere in the negotiation between what you needed and what work, ambition and other people's expectations required of you, the things that kept you well started feel out of reach. Rest, joy, a strength that makes you function clearly, not to mention saving some of your competence just for you.
Feeling well is your inherent state. The work isn’t to find yourself after everything falls apart, it's to understand what kept you well in the first place and tend to those things deliberately, without negotiation. The more you understand what keeps you well, the more you want to hold onto that, which is just good sense when you think about it.
Health is the baseline for how well you lead, think, and how you endure and whilst most people figure that out after burnout, this work is for those who'd rather not let it get that far.
WHAT 141 WOMEN TOLD US
When I burnt out and started talking about it I couldn't find a woman who didn't have some type of burnout story. So we asked 141 of them to tell us theirs. Actually, 139 women and 2 blokes who also shared, and we were thankful.
100% knew the word burnout. 78% felt forced to choose between their wellbeing and their career. 53% didn't change anything until their body made the decision for them.
The prevailing wisdom has been that women succeed by optimising relentlessly, working harder, performing better — essentially by acting like superheroes. Except superheroes don't exist. They're on Netflix. One woman said it best: "What a losing strategy that was."
MEET ELENI
Twenty one years being very good at my job, and I still managed to burn out in 2023. Knowing what you're doing, it turns out, is not the same thing as feeling well while you do it. I've since spent considerable time researching exactly why that happens, and what it takes to stay well while you're doing work you care about.
→ my story
WHAT I DO
Feeling well in your working life isn't complicated, but it does require some foundations that are remarkably easy to give up on. Four of them, to be precise, and we've built a programme around each one.
WORK WITH ME
The pilot programme takes you through the four foundations over 6 months, in a group environment.
If you'd prefer to work one to one, that's available too. Either way, the starting point is the same, understanding what keeps you well and making sure it stays that way.
READ THE BLOG
Things I think about, research I reference, and the occasional observation that didn't fit anywhere else. Worth your time, I think.