I started as a veterinary cardiologist in a big research centre. Deeply driven and fully committed to achieving success. One of the first to bring a breakthrough methodology into practice.
Everything I worked for came together: a skyrocketing career, deep impact, and popularity.
And then, my hard work and fascinating success were followed by a devastating collapse.
Long unsocial hours. Tremendous pressure to perform my best - and eventually, my body said a clear No. Through Burnout, Exhaustion, Immune suppression.
| What did doctors say? Leave your profession, move to the sea, and find what you love doing again. So I ran. To the sea. Looking for refuge on the boats. Home with sails. My body healed, felt strong again. I found an incredibly beautiful sailing frigate. A dream carved from ocean, wind, and wide open skies, a 33-meter Tall Ship. I was training teams how to navigate the Atlantic, the Northern Sea and their inner storms. Courage carried me far. But so did my refusal to pause. The destination? The same. It is hard to admit. But the same patterns started running the show. Exhaustion. Burnout. Health collapse. |
I recovered. Kept looking. With a passion for education, learning, and radical changes.
I have spent 6 years on Erasmus+ projects across the EU. Helping the unemployed and local businesses. Promoting programs for marginalised groups and working with people with special needs (dyslexia, autism). Training entrepreneurs in stress resilience and self-leadership.
I see the same patterns in others again and again. Everywhere.
I see so many friends and colleagues struggling to finish their days, suffocating from exhaustion, drowning in a tide of demands.
Those who care the most often hurt the deepest. Overgiving. Overcommitting. Overextending.
Having walked that path myself, I’m deeply committed to helping others through it.
From all my experience, burnout can’t truly be healed without a complete shift in identity.
It’s not just about changing what you do. It’s about changing who you think
you are.