From Denial to Awareness to Empowerment— a Burnout Recovery Journey
How, for Angela, hitting a wall became a gift.
3 min readJun 29, 2021
Angela came to me after hitting a wall — she woke up one day and could not lift her head. As a software engineer based in Paris, she had been working 80-hour weeks as long as she could remember. Now, her body had given way.