By Dr. Meagan Daley, Ph.D., C.Psych | Registered Psychologist | Ontario & Quebec RESTORE Reclaim · Empower · Soothe · Thrive · Open · Rebuild · Evolve Reclaim your life from pain Empower yourself with knowledge and skills Soothe your nervous system Thrive through structured pacing and rest Open to reconnection with self and others Rebuild your identity and sense of possibility Evolve beyond survival into living There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with fi

If you're lying awake at 1 a.m. replaying tomorrow's to-do list, you already know something is off. What you might not realize is that burnout and insomnia are often the same problem wearing two different masks. Why Burnout Keeps You Awake Burnout isn't just exhaustion. It's a state of chronic stress activation, with your nervous system stuck in a low-grade "on" position long after the workday ends. The irony is cruel. The more depleted you feel, the harder it can become to a

By Dr. Meagan Daley, PhD, Psychologist I want to tell you about a client I'll call Thomas. (As always, identifying details have been changed to protect confidentiality.) Thomas is a senior manager at a mid-sized firm in Ontario. By every external measure, beore coming to see me he was thriving: respected at work, devoted father, reliable friend, the kind of person people called when things needed to get done. He came to see me describing himself as "a bit off lately." He was

There is a particular kind of mental activity that most of us know intimately, even if we've never had a name for it. It goes something like this: something happens - a tense conversation, a mistake at work, or a vague sense that someone is upset with you. Instead of processing it and moving on, your mind takes it home, makes a cup of tea, and settles in for the evening. You replay the conversation. You imagine what you should have said. You wonder what they meant by that pau