2025 felt hard for a reason. Now that the pace has finally slowed, relief isn't what's showing up. It's something impossible to ignore: the realization that you did everything you were told, adjusted again and again, and it still didn’t work. This post names what broke, why pretending it was normal made it worse, and how to enter next year without recreating the same exhaustion.

We’ve been taught to call it resilience, but it’s really burnout with good PR. You keep holding it all together, thinking the calm will come later. But what if “later” has already turned into your lifestyle? In this week’s post, I’m unpacking the real cost of burnout (financial, emotional, and personal) and what it looks like to make rest your most practical financial strategy in 2025's burnout economy.