Stress and burnout
Burnout is not a character flaw, it is a load that outlasted the capacity to carry it. We work with it on two fronts: counselling with Ruth for the load itself, and body-side care, massage therapy or acupuncture, for a nervous system that has forgotten how to idle.
How it tends to show up
- Tired in a way that a weekend does not touch
- A shorter fuse than the person you know yourself to be
- A body that hums at rest: jaw set, shoulders up, breath shallow
- Caring less about things you know you care about
How we approach it
The centre of this work. Ruth spends much of her practice with capable people who kept it together until they couldn't. Expect practical tools and zero judgment about how long you waited.
Devon's slower sessions are built for exactly this: unhurried, moderate-pressure work that gives an over-revving system an hour of genuine idle.
Many people include acupuncture in their plan for the same reason: a quiet room, a warm table, and half an hour where nothing is asked of them.
The five-minute honest audit
Before your first visit, if you want somewhere to start: write down what a normal Tuesday asks of you, hour by hour, and mark the hours that give anything back. Most people who do this stop halfway through, not because it is hard, but because the pattern is suddenly obvious.
Bring the list, or do not. Either way, it is the kind of plain evidence that makes a first conversation useful instead of vague.
Often related
A plan beats a search spiral.
Book a first visit and leave with an honest read on what is going on, in plain language, on paper.
Rather talk it through first? (250) 555-0147