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Exhaustion & Burnout Recovery For High Achievers

With Chibs Okereke

You’re the one everyone relies on, and you’re exhausted. Find out why you can’t slow down, and what to do about it without losing your edge. By high achievers, I don’t mean job titles. I mean anyone who wants to do a really good job for the people relying on them, at work, at home, or caring for someone they love. From the outside, it looks like drive. You say “yes” when you mean “no”. You replay conversations at 3 am. Nothing ever feels quite finished, or quite good enough, or quite earned. And somehow resting is harder than working. I call this course Fire Can Burn, and here’s why. Overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, the imposter feeling, procrastination, the need to control, hyper-independence... These aren’t flaws. They’re usually strategies we picked up a long time ago to stay safe, and they’re a big part of what made you good at what you do. That’s your fire. The trouble is, the same fire that drives you can burn you out. So we don’t try to put the fire out. Each short video lesson takes one pattern, explains where it tends to come from and how a real strength tips into exhaustion, then gives you something to do about it. Sometimes that’s a simple tool. Sometimes it’s a short guided practice. I’m Chibs Okereke, a stress and burnout coach who burnt out badly on exactly these traits. So I get it. Keep your fire. Just stop letting it cost you everything else.

You’re the one everyone relies on, and you’re exhausted. Find out why you can’t slow down, and what to do about it without losing your edge.

11 Days

2.8k students

5.0 stars

12 min / day

English

About this course

Meet your Teacher

Chibs Okereke

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Sydney NSW, Australia

Chibs Okereke is a stress and burnout coach and a meditation instructor. His sleep meditations have helped millions unwind and find deeper rest. He holds an MSc in Organisational Psychology and is a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, trained through the Centre for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. A former burned-out CEO and reformed striver, Chibs stepped away from the multimillion dollar business he founded after burning out badly. That experience is what led him to mindfulness and nervous system work in the first place, and it's what this course is built on: recognising the traits, perfectionism, people-pleasing, overthinking, that drive high achievers and quietly wear them down, and learning to work with them instead of being ruled by them.

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11 Days

2.8k students

5.0 stars

12 min / day

English

Lesson 1

The Fire That Drives You

This lesson introduces the idea that the traits driving your success, perfectionism, people-pleasing, overthinking, and micromanaging, aren't flaws. They're strategies that once kept you safe. Chibs shares his own experience of burning out from these same patterns, walks through the five-step approach used throughout the course, and closes with a short guided practice to help you notice, and befriend, the fire that drives you.

Lesson 2

Where The Fire Comes From

This lesson traces where these traits actually come from, the link between early unsafety and the patterns it builds, showing why they were never flaws to begin with. Chibs shares his own story, from corporate success to a severe burnout that forced him to step away from everything, and closes with a short practice of bringing a younger version of yourself to mind and offering one line: you were valuable before you were useful.

Lesson 3

Overthinking

This lesson takes on overthinking, the mind that won't switch off at 3 am, and the difference between useful thinking and a loop that's stopped helping. Chibs walks through a simple tool called ten, ten, ten to step out of the spiral and shows how to put an overblown worry back to its real size.

Lesson 4

People-Pleasing

This lesson looks at people-pleasing, the invisible second list of other people's moods and problems that quietly wears us out, and why it isn't weakness but an old strategy for staying safe. Chibs draws the line between people-pleasing and real love-driven care, and teaches one honest question to ask before taking something on: is this actually mine to carry?

Lesson 5

Perfectionism

This lesson takes on perfectionism, the belief that good enough was never quite safe, and the line between healthy standards and the kind of polishing that never lets you stop. Chibs shares his own habit of over-polishing and teaches a simple question and a line, aiming for 80% instead of 100%, to help you actually finish and let go.

Lesson 6

Imposter Syndrome

This lesson sits with imposter syndrome, the quiet fear of being found out even after real success, and why it usually shows up in the capable, not the ones who are actually winging it. Chibs teaches a small shift in language for the moment it hits: instead of "I'm a fraud," try "I'm having the thought that I'm a fraud," paired with a few words of kindness rather than an argument.

Lesson 7

Procrastination

This lesson reframes procrastination as a nervous-system freeze rather than laziness, and looks at why the threat is rarely the task itself. Chibs teaches a two-part tool: shrinking the task to its tiniest first step and giving it just ten minutes to get unstuck without needing to feel ready first.

Lesson 8

Micromanaging

This lesson looks at micromanaging, which rarely comes from arrogance and is usually anxiety in disguise- a discomfort with letting go. Chibs shares his own habit of quietly redoing what he's delegated and teaches a pause-and-question tool for handing things over on purpose, instead of waiting to be forced to.

Lesson 9

Hyper-Independence

This lesson takes on hyper-independence, the reflex to refuse help before you've even considered it, and the cost of never letting anyone see you need something. Chibs shares his own version of the pattern and sets a small challenge for the week: one real ask, out loud, to a real person, with four rules to help it land.

Lesson 10

Boundaries

This lesson isn't about saying no; it's about the three days afterward, the urge to soften it, explain it again, or quietly undo it. Chibs shares a personal story of avoiding a boundary altogether and teaches three specific moves for that window: don't re-explain yourself, don't read their reply as a verdict, and don't send a softening follow-up message for three days.

Lesson 11

Recap: Tending the Fire

This is the closing lesson, bringing the whole course together, with no new trait to learn. Chibs returns to the question underneath it all, am I doing this for the work or to prove I'm enough, and leads the longest practice in the course: not putting the fire out, but learning to tend it.