01/01/2026
Are you about to do another year of chaos and be burnt out by March?
I used to live that life.
Push hard.
Collapse.
Get a week of rest.
Push like hell again.
Then need a two-week overseas holiday just to survive the year.
That isn’t ambition.
That’s a burnout cycle.
For a long time, I thought that was just the cost of being driven. Of being capable. Of wanting more. It wasn’t. It was a nervous system locked in survival and a body paying the bill.
Burnout doesn’t come from working hard. It comes from living in constant override. Ignoring signals. Running on adrenaline. Treating exhaustion as something to manage instead of something to listen to.
The problem with burnout cycles is that they feel normal when everyone around you is doing the same thing. But normal doesn’t mean healthy. And it definitely doesn’t mean sustainable.
I refuse to live like that anymore.
There is a way to work hard, create, build, and lead without sacrificing your body, your relationships, or your peace every few months. There is a way out of the crash-and-recover pattern.
It starts by changing the system you’re running on, not just taking another break and hoping this time it sticks.
This is the work we do at Recovery Jungle. Not band-aids. Not escapes. Real change at the level where burnout actually starts.
If you’re honest with yourself and you can already feel March breathing down your neck, this is your moment to do something different.
You don’t need another holiday to survive your life.
You need a system that can actually hold it.