Anti-Burnout Labs is a project I started from a need. I started a small online health coaching business and found myself overwhelmed by the conflicting business advice, practices that contradicted my values, exhaustion from ever seaking better ways, lack of support and understanding from my closest family, the guilt-driven need to fulfil everyone elses demands before I could work on my business until I was thoroughly burned out. I didn’t name it burnout because I didn’t believe I was entitled to be burned out.

Everyone telling me “You are not lazy” meant that I was. Everyone telling me “You are not broken” meant that I was. I did buy a lot of their solutions that did not work for me. I was failing even at self-care, so, who was I (despite strong credentials), to tell others how to look after themselves in times when life is chaos.

Time to do my own research and test-out evidence-based methods for resilience and productivity. So, this is meant to be a research-driven wellbeing space dedicated to creating sustainable systems for energy, focus, and resilience. The name reflects its purpose: laboratories for real-life experiments in work-rest dynamics that increase your wellbeing, clear thinking, and meaningful productivity, while preventing burnout.

The Labs combine science, strategy, and self-compassion to help beginning entrepreneurs who are overwhelmed and lack support from people closest to them, support themselves and transform burnout into balance (or, better said, healthy dynamics) without hacks, hype, or guilt. Each program will be designed as an experiment in sustainability, helping you understand how your environment, biology and behaviour work together so you can create from energy, not exhaustion.

The ABLs is a project of MZ Health Coaching

P.S. The only person operating these labs is Mihaela – no animal testing is going on in here!