Burnout & Overwhelm Coaching for
High-Achieving
Women
Online burnout and overwhelm coaching by Dr SaraLou, former GP and women’s coach.
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Looking for a way to recover from burnout and overwhelm?
You and I both know, that burnout recovery isn’t as simple as rest more or try harder.
In fact it starts with understanding the Perfect Storm of Overwhelm in your life- the relentless demands upon you, the inner pressure to keep going, your chronically unmet needs and your depleted nervous system- and then creating a sustainable way forward.
My burnout coaching can support your recovery…
You don’t need to keep pushing on through
If you’re ready for support that helps you build success, wellbeing, and growth in a way that doesn’t leave you behind, you’re in the right place.
Whether you’re looking for the power of the collective, a more intimate coaching partnership, or resources you can move through in your own time, there are a few ways we can begin.
121 Coaching
Private coaching for a calmer, more manageable life before Christmas.
Move from feeling overwhelmed, constantly on and stretched thin to having the capacity, boundaries and practical tools to feel calmer, more present and back in charge of your days- without waiting for life to slow down. Head into the new year with clarity what you want in you life.
Thrive Together
My signature experience for high-achieving women ready to redefine success on their own terms — with the support of the collective.
A guided, supportive space to move beyond burnout, overwhelm, and self-abandonment — and begin building a more sustainable, grounded way of living and leading.
Final enrolment by 30 September 2026 (then closes for 2026).
Self-Guided Support
‘The roadmap out of dark side of high achievement’ is a self-guided course, interactive and practical, to start in your own time.
Map out the overwhelm patterns that have held you stuck in the dark side of high achievement and start to create your path out with science backed strategy that truly moves the needle and you can feel back in control again.
You’ve tried everything…
The books, the podcasts, the new routine…
You’ve tried pushing on through, hoping that the deadline, the holiday would help but it never does.
You feel like it’s your fault, your inner critic shouts “you should be better at coping, everyone else is!” and “you signed up to this, so you should be able to handle it!”.
And you’ve felt like this for months or years now, and you know work gets the best of you, and home gets what’s left…
You snap and shout at the ones you love the most.
You want to rush through bedtime, just to be alone.
The guilt is always there…
And you want to be with them and present but your mind is whizzing through all the open tabs, even though it’s Saturday, you can’t switch off.
You dread the day ahead, unsure how you’ll make it through but then you keep showing up, smile fixed on your face.
You truly don’t know when you last felt like you or why you’re finding life so heavy. You have everything you’ve worked towards for decades… but it doesn’t feel like what you thought it would.
That’s where my burnout and overwhelm coaching comes in.
I work with high-achieving women who are ready to redefine success on their own terms — women who are done with survival-mode, pushing on through and are ready to feel like them again… The version of them that feels confident and capable at work and present and joyful at home.
This work is not about fixing you: You were never broken in the first place, you just weren’t shown how to have success that works for you, your life and your family.
And that’s what we do here.
The way forward
All of my coaching is rooted in The Thrive Bright Method™ — my integrative approach combining nervous system work, identity-level coaching, psychology, trauma-informed principles, mindfulness and practical real-life change.
This work is not about helping you cope better with a life that is already costing you too much.
It is about understanding the Perfect Storm of Overwhelm in your life - the incredible mental load, the perfectionism and people pleasing, the nervous system depletion, the chronically unmet needs.
And reverse engineering them, purposely and intentionally, to create a way of living, working and leading that actually lets you thrive and feel like you again.
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