I know what it feels like to lose touch with yourself.

I have been through burnout more than once as a tech founder. Raising capital, finding customers, managing teams and keeping the company moving left very little room for the rest of my life.

I stopped having fun. I put spirituality aside, even though it had always mattered to me. I compromised my values to keep other people happy and let doubt in my abilities shape my decisions.

Then I lost the company after a conflict with a business partner. For weeks, I struggled to get out of bed. My relationships and finances were under strain. I had to work out who I was beyond the business.

I drew on my coaching background and what I had learned studying with spiritual teachers around the world. I wrote down my beliefs, questioned whether they were truly mine, and asked whether they still served me.

I came back to gratitude, my values, and what happiness and fulfillment meant to me. I had spent so long responding to what the company needed that I had stopped asking what mattered to me.

Those questions gave me a place to begin. I built morning rituals around the life I wanted and became more deliberate about where my time and energy went. As my choices changed, my life began to change too.