You didn't plan to end up here.

You built a career. You learned the ropes, earned credibility, became the person people counted on.

And somewhere along the way, it became too much. The burnout didn't announce itself - it accumulated.

Now you're on the other side of it, recovering, and the question isn't "how do I go back?"

It's "what do I actually want to go back to?"

I know this territory.

I spent decades in IT. I was good at it. I built a career that made sense on paper.

And then my body started keeping score - exhaustion that rest couldn't fix, a growing sense that I was running on fumes, the quiet certainty that something fundamental had to change.

My recovery didn't follow a formula. There was no timeline, no five-step plan.

It was slower than I wanted, messier than I expected, and more honest than I'd been in years.

I had to stop measuring progress the way I'd been trained to and start listening to what my body was actually telling me.

That experience - the whole arc of it - is what brought me to coaching.

I'm Michael, a certified coach (ICF ACC, Erickson Coaching International) based in Canada. I work with mid-career professionals who are recovering from burnout and facing the same question I did: “Now what?”

How I work

I don't believe in formulas. I don't hand you a roadmap with arbitrary milestones. I don't tell you what moving forward is supposed to look like.

What I do believe:

• Your body is a signal system, not an obstacle.

• Capability and availability are not the same thing.

• The "shoulds" you've been carrying might not actually be yours.

• And figuring out what you want to build next starts with permission to stop performing certainty you don't feel.

We meet bi-weekly over six months. That's enough time to do real work without rushing it. The pace is yours. The direction is yours. My job is to help you hear what you already know and trust it enough to act on it.

Who this is for

You're mid-career. You've proven yourself. You know how to deliver. But you've also hit a wall - burnout that forced you to stop - and now you're recovering.

You don't want to go back to the life you had. You're not interested in "bouncing back" or "getting back on track" if that track was the problem. You want to figure out what a life worth waking up to actually looks like for you.

You're not in crisis. You're in transition. And you're looking for someone who's been where you are and can help you move forward without the pressure or the prescriptions.

Next step

If this resonates, let's talk. Book a free discovery call and we'll figure out if this is a fit.

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