My business partner and I started our business ten years ago and for the first eight we rarely disagreed. The business grew consistently. We had severe challenges during COVID which we negotiated successfully, but since then I kept feeling resentful about what I felt was my partner taking over parts of the business that I had been doing. It felt as if I was being pushed out of my own company. I shared this with my wife. She was dismissive and said I was just being paranoid. I got mad because I wanted her to support me and agree that I had a right to be angry. Things got worse between us and eventually she said she was going to stay with her mother for a while. Her mother was recovering from an operation but I didn’t think she needed 24 hour care from my wife. My world was imploding. Within a month I couldn’t sleep. I just lay on the couch and watched TV in the evenings until a few hours after midnight. I dozed for a while until it was time to shower and put on an ‘I’m fine’ face and go to work. My partner told me I should take a few weeks off and relax. “Well he would do, wouldn’t he? He wants me out of here permanently! I wonder what changes he will make while I’m away. Will it include the locks?” So I said “I’m fine”. I signed up for a summit on burnout with Dr. Andre as a speaker. When he went through his own experiences of burnout there were too many similarities to ignore so I ended up signing up for his Banish Burnout program. It was in the beta stage but it was amazing. The first crucial milestone was that I began to recognize how serious my burnout was. With my wife gone my meals started to come out of cans. It’s not that I can’t cook, I can. I just couldn’t be bothered. One thing that suddenly scared me was a taking out the recycling and seeing the bin full of chip packets, cans and candy wrappers. Just three weeks later after following the Banish Burnout program, the ability to sleep had returned. That in itself was an amazing relief. It also meant I could get up refreshed enough to go for an early morning walk, a routine I always used to have but that got buried by my burnout. By the end of the program, I was well on the way to repairing my relationships with my partner and others at work. Suddenly I had clarity regarding the future, and when my wife sent me a text with flight details for her return home, joy returned. Now, several months mater, I don’t just feel as I did before burnout, I feel stronger and more resilient than I ever remember feeling. This has been a powerful experience.