Writing · In progress
The Long Way Back to Myself
Writing about burning out inside purpose, and the slow work of coming home to the parts of me I’d exiled.
About the writing
A longer telling of the way back
This is the most personal strand of the work. It follows what happened when I stopped, after years of building things at speed for organisations I believed in, and what I found I’d exiled to keep going.
I don’t yet know what form it will take. For now it’s a body of writing that runs underneath everything else on this site: the thesis, the map and the deck all grew out of it.
Extracts will be published here as they’re ready, filed under the cards they belong to. If you’d like to read them when they are, join the list below.
In the meantime
Writing you can read now
Field note21 Jul 2026Silence is load-bearingTaboo decides what can’t be named and stigma decides what we become if we name it, while silence is what holds the whole thing up.→Field note11 Aug 2026The work nobody seesInvisible labour keeps organisations alive while appearing in no job description, and having your expertise ignored is its own kind of injury.→Field note1 Sep 2026A wound to integrityMoral injury doesn’t resolve through rest, only through changed conditions or a coherent exit.→Field note22 Sep 2026Where you end and your role beginsThe system didn’t create the self-sacrifice schema; it found it, and it runs it.→
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