Creativity After Collapse

What happens after you let go of who you were.

I thought I knew who I was…until it all stopped working. I can remember the day like it was yesterday. I had gotten up, gotten dressed, and started the day as normal. I walked the dog and made my breakfast. Then the panic attack set in. Nothing had happened. Nothing had changed. But I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I felt like my heart was going to pop, like someone was shutting the coffin lid over my still-cooling grave. The culprit? My 12:00 coaching call that was looming in the distance.

This was the moment that I had to face it all. I wasn’t just lost, disconnected, and emptied out. I was burned out. I had nothing in the tanks.

That’s what happens when you build an entire business and identity on pouring yourself out into others. It’s exactly what happens when you pour yourself out into a life and a career that, frankly, doesn’t fit.

You see, since 2019, I have been doing everything I could to help others. I started a personal development brand built on the very survival techniques I had employed myself. I taught people how to rescue themselves from narcissistic parents, narcissistic relationships, and the sort of dysfunctional childhood trauma that leaves you broken for the rest of your life.