Before You Crash: Building Your Burnout Early-Warning System

Before You Crash: Building Your Burnout Early-Warning System
Stop waiting for the breakdown—track the warning signs with journaling, mood tracking, and weekly reflection rituals
Your Body Is Screaming While You’re Typing in Silence: A Tech Worker’s Guide to Somatic Release

Somatic mindfulness practices for stored stress in neck, jaw, and shoulders.
Your Code Compiles, But Your Brain Crashes: A Developer’s Guide to Dopamine Detox

Breaking the scroll-compile-notify loop that fuels burnout.
You’re Not Burned Out—You’re Morally Injured: The Difference That Changes Everything

When it’s not just exhaustion, it’s building something you don’t believe in
You’re Not Tired—You’re at Stage 3: The 4 Stages of Burnout Decoded

The 4 Stages of Burnout (Honeymoon → Onset → Chronic → Crisis) and the exact mindfulness intervention for each
Your Heart Knows You’re Burnt Out Before Your Brain Does: HRV for Engineers

Track your burnout in numbers and reverse it in weeks
You’re Losing Yourself While Caring For Someone Else: The Silent Crisis No One Talks About

You gave everything. Now you’re empty. Here’s how to refill—quietly, gently.
Job-Hunt Burnout: What 500+ Applications Taught Me About Staying Human

500+ applications, ghosting recruiters, and staying sane between interviews
Post-Layoff Identity Crisis: Who Are You Without Your Title?

Who am I when my Staff/Principal title is suddenly gone?
You’re One Flare-Up Away from Burning Out in Tech — Here’s How to Never Let Chronic Illness Affect You

Chronic Illness, High-Stakes Deadlines, and the Art of Staying Human You wake up and already know today is going to hurt. Your body is sending the memo before your alarm does. Yet Slack is pinging, the stand-up is in 27 minutes, and that ticket you swore you’d finish yesterday is now blocking the whole team. […]