Six weeks ago I was in a classic burnout spiral. I thought I just needed to spend more hours on work. I was sacrificing sleep, justifying five and a half hours as a full REM cycle. I'd lock myself in my office eight hours a day, sometimes hyperfocusing through lunch. And everything was still failing. There was too much noise in my head. I was having fights with my partner about not being present, and I couldn't name anything I was feeling beyond shame and helplessness.
I spent a lot of time worrying that something like this was too good to be true, but I felt like I'd been waiting for something like this programme. It was so dialled in to the need I was feeling, as if my mind had been read. I needed to make a change and I knew if I didn't at least try I was doomed to stay in the spiral.
Six weeks later, I can safely say this was NOT another app or surface-level 'hack'. There was no rush to get through modules, and we built progress steadily and meaningfully. I was able to make sure I could get to the real roots of my personal challenges. I got addicted to the daily check-ins, and through them I started to find the words for everything. Sage, the AI companion, has been firm but gentle, and it keeps me from dismissing any progress I've made.
Now I keep more promises. I ask for help more often. I say no. I stop work when I say I'm going to, which used to be impossible! I've stopped trying to be this ideal disciplined version of myself, this superhuman that doesn't exist. I learned I don't have to be the hero of the day. I don't have to fix everything by myself. I sleep so much better now, which really shifted everything. The knock-on effect is so real that I can't ignore it anymore.
This was the right choice for me, and I'm so glad I kept showing up. Thank you!
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