BLog

You took the time off. You slept in. You tried to switch off. Maybe you went somewhere quiet, walked on the beach, tried to just be. And then you came back. And within a week, maybe less, it was like nothing had changed. The exhaustion returned. The irritability. The sense of running on empty while trying to look like you've got it together. You thought rest would fix it. But burnout doesn't work that way. What I see in the therapy room, particularly with people working in Ca

I've sat across from enough people struggling with gambling to know this: by the time they walk into the room, the money is rarely the hardest part to talk about. Sure, the debt is real. The stress is crushing. The consequences are stacking up. But underneath all of that, there's something else quietly collapsing. Something harder to name. Something that feels impossible to rebuild. It's trust. Not just the trust others had in them. That's painful enough. But deeper than that