Journal
Written for the questions people type at two in the morning.
No listicles and no reassurance. These are the answers Ola gives in a first conversation, written out properly.
Warning signs
The burnout warning signs that arrive before exhaustion
By the time you are tired you are already late. Six signals that show up months earlier, and what each one is actually telling you.
8 min read
Recovery
How long does burnout recovery actually take?
The honest answer has three separate clocks in it, and most articles only give you one of them.
9 min read
Recovery
How to recover from burnout when rest is not working
What to do when the standard advice has already failed, and why effort is the wrong instrument for a problem effort created.
10 min read
Relapse
Burnout relapse risk: why the second one is more likely than you think
Recovering once addresses the exhaustion. It usually leaves the mechanism completely intact.
8 min read
Illness
Feeling like yourself again after a serious illness or accident
The body gets a discharge date. What the event wrote into your nervous system does not.
8 min read
Rest
Why rest stops fixing anything
Why a good holiday buys you four days, what that is telling you, and what the alternative actually is.
7 min read
Geneva
Expat isolation in Geneva, and why it is not a social problem
An emotional glacier, oil and water, and the loop that makes meeting people feel disproportionately expensive.
8 min read
The session
What actually happens in a Reset session
Eighty per cent of it is not talking. The hour described plainly, because it is the thing people are most nervous about.
7 min read
Insight
Self-aware, and still stuck
The most common profile here is not someone confused about their problem. It is someone who can describe it perfectly and cannot stop doing it.
8 min read
Distinctions
Burnout or depression? Why the distinction matters
They overlap enough to be confused and differ enough that confusing them costs you months.
8 min read
The premise
The effort trap
Every field of personal development sells you action in exchange for relief. For nervous overload, that exchange runs the wrong way.
8 min read
Practitioners
When the helper is the one who is depleted
The people best equipped to spot this in others are the worst at spotting it in themselves.
8 min read
Return to work
Returning to work after burnout: what needs to be in place
Most return-to-work plans cover logistics and leave the part that decides whether it holds to chance.
8 min read
Framework
Integrity, competence, impact: what holds a practice up
Ola's framework for why dedicated professionals lose their footing, and which pillar always gives way first.
7 min read
Start here
Reading is a good place to start. It is not the same as feeling it.
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