For people who are functional, burned out, and done white-knuckling it. Three interventions per week. Every mechanism explained. Built by someone who needed this and couldn't find it anywhere.
This is not a meditation app. It is not a productivity system. It is not twelve habits for a more mindful you. It is a six-week structured recovery protocol for people who understand what's happening to them and want a complete, evidence-based system to address it.
If you are in crisis right now — please use the resources below. This protocol is designed for people who are still functional, still going to work, still showing up. Just running on empty.
Six weeks. Three interventions per week. Each one shows you the exact problem it's solving, the mechanism behind it, and why it works. No vague principles. No "practice self-compassion." Specific, timed actions with documented outcomes — built from clinical burnout research and written in plain English.
Week 1 is called "Stop the Bleeding" — because you can't build on an actively collapsing foundation. Most burnout advice skips this entirely and jumps straight to habit-stacking. That's why it doesn't stick.
Three non-negotiable actions per week. Each one addresses a specific physiological or psychological mechanism of burnout. Read these and you'll know exactly what you're getting.
You cannot build recovery on an actively collapsing foundation. Before anything else — name what's draining you, lock in sleep as a non-negotiable, and practice one meaningful no. The scale doesn't matter. The precedent does.
Your nervous system is stuck in sympathetic activation. You cannot think or will your way out of that state. These three interventions shift it physiologically — before you try to change anything else.
Burnout breaks the wire between action and reward. The dopamine loop stops firing. This week you don't chase motivation — you prime the pump through deliberately intrinsically motivated activity.
Your nervous system is what you consume. This week you examine what you've been feeding it — and make deliberate changes to the input load without dramatically changing your life.
Social connection is one of the strongest documented buffers against burnout. The withdrawal that feels like self-protection is actually maintaining the depletion loop. This week you start interrupting it.
Recovery without redesign is just a longer runway to the same crash. This week you build the structural conditions for a life that doesn't require burning out to maintain.
This protocol takes around 30 minutes per day at peak weeks. Most weeks it's less. It was designed to merge into the life you already have — not to require a personality transplant to execute.
It works. Not immediately, and not without effort. Recovery from burnout takes 3–6 months for moderate-to-severe cases. This protocol gives you the structure for those months — not a 72-hour miracle cure.
If you're in active crisis right now — please use the free resources listed inside the protocol. This is for people who are functional and ready to do the work systematically.
People who are actually fine don't read this far. You know what you need. This is the structured starting point for people who are done waiting for it to get better on its own.