Notes on Burnout, Anxiety, and Being Human

Struggling to sleep even after trying the basics? Here's a tiered approach to better sleep, from ruling out medical causes, to sleep hygiene, to calming a racing mind and a wired body when anxiety or burnout is keeping you up at night.

Exhausted but still can't sleep? Here's the real connection between sleep and burnout, what's happening in your brain and nervous system, and why rest doesn't always come easily even when your body desperately needs it.

You finally sit down to relax… and instead of feeling calm, your thoughts start racing and your body feels on edge. If rest feels uncomfortable—or even anxiety-provoking—you’re not doing it wrong. Here’s why this happens, and how to help your nervous system experience it as safe again.

Feeling exhausted even when you’re sleeping enough doesn’t mean you’re lazy. For many high-achieving adults, being “the strong one” comes at a cost: your nervous system can get stuck in overdrive, leaving you anxious, drained, or disconnected from yourself. In this post, I explain why burnout isn’t just about doing too much, how your body’s stress response contributes to chronic exhaustion, and what it actually feels like to recover.

Learn how perfectionism develops as protection and how therapy can help you heal burnout, find balance, and reconnect with yourself.

Struggling with exhaustion and overwhelm? Learn 5 early signs of burnout and how to recover — from a burnout + anxiety therapist in Guelph who helps overachievers and people-pleasers restore balance and joy.

A lack of healthy boundaries is a super common contributing factor to burnout. It makes perfect sense. If you continually take on too much, try to rescue others from their problems, or struggle to say “no”, you can easily wind up feeling completely overwhelmed and chronically stressed. Although we often think of boundaries in our relationship to others, an often neglected but just as important form of boundaries is those we set with ourselves. If you really struggle to assert