Tag: burnout
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Week 16: Launches, Loneliness, and Moving Forward
This week was a bit of a roller coaster. Some big things happened, including a couple of launches that had been a long time coming. At the same time, it was also one of those weeks where emotions, uncertainty, and everyday frustrations all seemed to pile on top of each other. That’s life sometimes, especially…
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Week 15: Building My Own Runway
This week was a strange mix of frustration, momentum, loneliness, and progress — sometimes all within the same hour. On the health front, I had my follow-up with my cancer doctor. Overall, things are moving in the right direction, but we decided to add a topical treatment to hopefully speed things up. Unfortunately, the timing…
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Week 14: Momentum, Resistance, and Showing Up Anyway
This week felt like a perfect snapshot of what rebuilding looks like — not dramatic highs and lows, but a lot of showing up. On the fitness front, I’m officially down 10 pounds. The scale hasn’t moved much past that this week, which is frustrating, but I’ve also increased weights at the gym and kept…
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Weekly Update #13: Covid But Showing Up Anyway
This week wasn’t flashy, but it was meaningful. It started with COVID. After a few days of not feeling great, I tested and confirmed it. That knocked out the gym for a bit and forced me to slow down just as I’d been building momentum. Mentally, that’s always frustrating. But instead of spiraling, I tried…
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Weekly Update: Shipping Momentum, Hard Conversations, and Showing Up Anyway
This past week felt like one of those stretches where everything seems to happen at once — progress, setbacks, stress, excitement — sometimes all within the same day. Big Wins (And They Really Are Big) The biggest milestone of the week is that Did I Do That? is officially submitted to the Apple App Store…
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Burnout Recovery, Week 9: From Survival Mode to Creative Momentum
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next chapter. This past week felt like a quiet turning point. Not because everything suddenly got easier — it didn’t — but because something important shifted. For the first time in a while, I wasn’t just coping with burnout. I was creating again. Building.…
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Week 8: Quiet Progress, Holding Steady, and Learning to Be Okay with “Enough”
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This past week didn’t feel dramatic.There were no huge breakthroughs or sweeping changes. Instead, it felt quiet — sometimes heavy, sometimes steady — and full of the kind of progress that’s easy to overlook if you’re only measuring productivity by output. And…
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Week 7: In Between What Was and What’s Next — and Shipping Something Real
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This week didn’t come with a clean sense of momentum or a big emotional breakthrough. Instead, it lived in the middle — between what my life used to look like and what it’s slowly becoming. Some days felt heavy and unmoored. Others…
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Week 6: Quiet Momentum, Returning Curiosity, and Trusting the Pace
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This past week didn’t come with any dramatic turning points or emotional breakthroughs — and that’s actually what made it meaningful. Instead of big swings, it was a week of steadiness. Of routines holding. Of curiosity returning. Of confidence rebuilding quietly, without…
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Week 5: Heavy Days, Hard Decisions, and Holding the Line
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This week didn’t move in a straight line — emotionally or practically. There were moments of momentum, moments of excitement, moments of deep fatigue, and moments where life simply demanded attention all at once. But if there’s one thing this week reinforced,…