02/21/2026
I did it! 🏄♀️ Tried surfing in 10 different countries/islands before I turned 50!!! Portugal 🇵🇹
Florida 🇺🇸
Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Mexico 🇲🇽
Canada 🇨🇦
El Salvador 🇸🇻
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Barbados 🇧🇧
St Maarten In 2021, I burned out as a therapist during the pandemic. The kind where your nervous system completely shuts down and you can’t function. I also had a lot of physical symptoms.
After a brain MRI, I was told lesions or flares could be MS. For eight months — due to the COVID medical backlog — I lived in uncertainty.
I didn’t know if I was exhausted…vaccination-reactive…or facing a chronic illness.
What I did know was this:
I could not keep living the way I had been.
So before I had answers, I changed everything.
* I stopped glorifying overwork
* I restructured how I practiced
* I reconnected with nature * I learned nervous system regulation
* I began rebuilding strength slowly, intentionally.
And when I was finally told I did not have MS, something had already shifted.
I had already decided I would never wait for collapse again.
That’s when I started surfing.
Not because it’s trendy.But because my body could.Because I wanted to feel strong again.Because joy needed to become preventative, not postponed.
Today I teach burnout prevention.
Not from theory.From lived nervous system repair.
Burnout prevention is not productivity hacks.It’s rebuilding a life your body doesn’t need to escape from.
And sometimes, that looks like riding waves 🌊 ❤️☮️🏄♀️
If you’re in burnout right now: recovery is possible. And it starts long before the diagnosis — or the permission — arrives.
