“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
THE QUITTER’S CLUB blog
People pleasing, perfectionism, booze, skinny jeans, crappy cheese - everyone’s quitting something. Join me here in a quest for less of what’s holding you back from a life of sustainable, authentic joy.
How to Know If You're Burning Out and What To Do Next
You're exhausted but rest isn't helping. You used to care deeply about your work and now you're not sure you do. You're capable, but something keeps feeling off. Here's a science-backed guide to reading what your body and brain have been trying to tell you.
How Burnout Resilience Coaching Actually Works (And Why It's Different From Everything Else You've Tried)
Burnout isn't a mystery — it's a biological process with a map. Learn how the Forest Fire Model and FLOURISH framework help individuals, leaders, and organizations understand what's actually driving exhaustion and build sustainable recovery, whether through coaching, training, or team culture change.
Burnout Culture at Work AND Home: Why You Can't Care When You're Always in a Rush
Most of us aren't too busy to care — we're operating in conditions that make caring nearly impossible. New research shows why rushing erodes trust, engagement, and connection at work and home, and why the companies that prioritize caring FOR people (not just about them) outperform the ones that don't.
How to Ask for Help Without Feeling Bad About It
You hired the car detailer and an hour in, he texts, "this car is a f***ing disaster." Your lawnmower broke weeks ago and now your underprepared disaster response lawn guy has to hack through a surprise jungle into the dark of night. Most of us wait until we need an emergency response team to ask for what we could have asked for all along. And we do it because asking feels... bad. Here's why, what it costs us, and what's actually on the other side.
ADHD Accommodations That Actually Help Everyone
A colleague got diagnosed with ADHD at 45. The accommodations she fought for transformed her work. Then her whole team wanted in — not because they wanted special treatment, but because clear expectations, flexible schedules, and human feedback make work better for all of us. Here's why.
Secrets Make Us Sick (And Burn Us Out)
We don't talk about it. Not the money, not the affair, not the diagnosis, not the fact that you're drowning. The energy you spend hiding the truth—from others and from yourself—is literally making you sick. And your children are watching. Here's why, and what's actually possible.
When “I Deserve” Feels Gross: The Quiet Cost of Not Seeing Your Worth
Believing you don't deserve protects you from risk, from action, from showing up for yourself. But it costs everything: your power, your peace, your health. Here's the vicious cycle that creates burnout—and how to break it.
How Well-Intentioned Leaders Accidentally Create Burnout Culture at Work AND Home
You manage your team one way. You manage your family another. Right? Probably not. The same beliefs that drive your leadership at work are organizing your home life—often in ways you don't recognize until the cost becomes undeniable.
Secure Leadership: Why Your Behaviors Won't Stick Without the Inner Work
You can learn the behaviors of a secure leader. But unless you understand your emotional blindspots, your nervous system, and what your worth is actually tied to, the behaviors won't stick. Here's why—and what actually changes things.
Why Passive Aggression Is the #1 Driver of Burnout (And What to Do About It)
The #1 driver of burnout isn't hours worked. It's repressed anger + the passive-aggressive behaviors that let off just enough steam to keep the dam from breaking. You're exhausted from tolerating something that requires enormous energy to manage. Learn to recognize the pattern—and break free.
The Default Parent's Guide: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Actually Change It
If everyone calls you first, you know all the answers, and you're running on empty—this guide is for you. Understand why default parenting happens and five concrete ways to actually change it.
4 Ways to Stop Carrying What You Don't Need (Backed by Science)
Why do we hold onto things we don't need? Turns out, your brain values what you own twice as much as identical items you don't—even rotting pumpkins. This isn't just about stuff. It's about the invisible weight of old beliefs, unprocessed grief, and expectations that aren't yours. Here's how to spot what you're carrying and practice setting it down.
How to Get Out of High Conflict (And Why It's Burning You Out)
Perpetual frustration, replaying conversations, feeling like nothing will ever change. Sound familiar? Here's the difference between conflict that moves you and conflict that swallows you whole.
You Can't Build a Village If You Won't Let Anyone In: Learning to Receive
Hyper-independence is praised as strength. But it's quietly burning you out. The other half of community is receiving help. Here's how to practice it in 3 steps.
How to Stop Updating Friends and Start Making Real Memories: The Friendshift Your Nervous System Actually Needs
Your "I'm busy" friendships won't heal burnout. Real connection requires showing up in person—and your nervous system knows the difference. Here's how to actually do it.
The 5 Signs Your “Social Opting Out” Is Amplifying Stress—And Why Your Brain Tells You "No Time for Friends"
Overwhelmed people isolate. Your brain calls it "efficiency." It's actually your nervous system in protection mode. And it's making burnout worse. Here's why isolation is a burnout accelerant—and why connection is the antidote.
10 Boundary Mistakes I See in Every Client, Team, and Organization I Work With
Almost every burned-out person I coach makes the same 10 boundary mistakes. They think they know what boundaries are—but they're usually confusing them with something else entirely. Here's what actually works.
You Freed Up All This Time. So Why Do You Still Feel Behind? The Real Reason Your Productivity Isn't Translating to Peace
You optimized everything. Technology freed your calendar. So why does your nervous system still feel drowning? Here's the neuroscience behind why saving time doesn't equal feeling less overwhelmed—and what actually works.
POV: A Haunted House, But It's Just Your Free Hour
You finally get a free hour—and freeze. Should you exercise? Rest? Tackle emails? 45 minutes later, you've done nothing and feel worse. If free time feels like a haunted house of unfinished projects, this is for you. Learn why you're stuck and how to actually use time without the paralysis.
How to Have Difficult Conversations at Work: A Guide to Building Authentic Professional Relationships Without Getting Fired
That conversation you're avoiding? You'll pay now with short-term discomfort, or later with burnout from simmering resentment and powerlessness. Learn the VIEW framework, physiological regulation tools, and boundary-setting to transform workplace culture—before you're too depleted to care.
