Areas of focus
Burnout & professional exhaustion
Burnout is not a lack of willpower. It is what happens when a nervous system has been asked to perform for too long.
Many of the people I see in the Sophia Antipolis area are competent, reliable, highly committed — and running on empty. Burnout rarely arrives as a collapse. It arrives as a slow flattening: the work still gets done, but nothing feels like anything.
Recovering from burnout is not only about resting. It is about understanding the internal rules that made stopping impossible in the first place.
You may recognise yourself if…
Exhaustion that sleep no longer repairs
Cynicism or emotional distance towards work you once cared about
Difficulty concentrating, deciding, remembering
Physical symptoms: headaches, digestion, recurring infections
Guilt when resting, panic at the idea of stopping
Imposter feelings that grow as responsibility grows
How we work together
First, we stabilise. Sleep, breath, boundaries, and permission — often the hardest one to grant yourself.
Then we look at the drivers: the part of you that believes rest must be earned, the fear of being replaceable, the family or cultural story about worth and productivity.
Finally we rebuild a sustainable relationship to work, so returning does not mean repeating.