You’re getting things done, but inside you’re running hot with stress and overwhelm.
A 13-day nervous system companion for high-pressure weeks and steadier days.
This companion is paused for a short while as we make a few careful improvements.
Leave your email to be the first to know when this companion is back. You’ll also receive our quiet notes, and can optionally join our weekly draw for a full companion in your first email. No purchase necessary. 18+. Worldwide where permitted.
If someone you love comes to mind, you can also give this companion as a quiet, personal gift.
We’ll create a beautifully personalised voucher, ready to send or print.
If you don’t know yet, further down the page, you’ll find the gentle details on how gifting works.
Instead of another course to complete, you (or your loved one) receive ONE TINY GIFT A DAY.
One to five minutes. Clear edges. No streaks. No guilt.
Practical nervous system support for high-pressure weeks, to help your inner pressure come down by a few degrees, sooner rather than later.
Approx. 52 USD / 39 GBP / 42 CHF / 72 CAD / 78 AUD.
One-time payment. No subscription. Lifetime access.
Almost Burned Out is for you if your days look something like this:
You wake up already braced, as if you are late before anything has begun.
You’re getting things done, but your body stays tight and your mind keeps scanning.
Everything feels urgent, even when you know it cannot all be urgent.
You keep thinking “I just need to get through this week”, and then another week arrives.
You’re tired, but you can’t properly come down, because there is always one more thing.
You don’t want a new system. You want your system to stop running at emergency speed.
If this feels familiar, Almost Burned Out is here to help your inner pressure come down by a few degrees, before it has to force a stop.
One tiny moment at a time.
Over these 13 days, this companion gently helps you to:
Notice your early warning lights, so you catch the pattern sooner, not later.
Create micro margins between tasks, so your day has tiny places to breathe.
Reduce the pressure without collapsing your life, by lowering one standard at a time.
Separate urgent from important, so “everything” stops shouting at once.
Plug one energy leak, so you stop losing power in places you cannot even name.
Redefine what “enough for today” can look like, especially on the days you are running on fumes.
We don’t promise a perfect routine.
We focus on small, realistic shifts that your nervous system can actually use.
You don’t see a long curriculum or a list of tasks.
You see one small step at a time.
You begin with honest clarity, without drama. You learn how to check in, how to spot your warning lights, and how to tell the truth without spiralling.
You create micro margins, cut a list in half, loosen the urgent story, lower one standard, and plug one energy leak. Small acts that change the internal load.
You practise a steadier gear. Not “pushing through”, not “giving up”. A different way of moving, with an edge protocol you can return to whenever life tightens again.
By the end of the 13 days, your life may not be magically calm.
But your system can feel less trapped inside pressure, and more able to choose a pace that does not cost you so much.
We don’t list all 13 gifts in advance, so your companion can unfold with a little surprise.
But here are two tiny examples of what an evening gift might feel like:
A Nervous System Gift: The Edge Check-In
You take a quiet reading on your inner pressure gauge, then take three slower breaths.
No fixing. No analysing. Just information.
A small way of telling your body: “This is where I am today”, without turning it into a problem to solve.
A Story Shift Gift: Urgent or Important?
For a moment, you become the air traffic controller of your day. You notice which tasks are truly urgent, and which are simply loud. Then you let one thing land first, and allow the rest to circle.
No lists. No homework. Just a calmer internal order.
Each gift is designed to shift your night by a few degrees, not to overhaul your life overnight.
Every gift in Almost Burned Out comes in the same gentle formats as our other companions:
Read it (in silence).
A short, clear text that speaks to you like a kind, honest friend, not like a teacher.
Read it with piano music underneath.
The same words, held by selected piano piece, for when you want a little more beauty without needing more effort.
Listen to a calm voice.
The same gift read by a quiet voice, with no music, for when your eyes and mind have had enough of screens.
Let voice and music hold you.
A soft voice with a subtle background layer, for moments when you want to feel accompanied rather than instructed.
You can choose the softest way your system can say yes to that day.
Each gift takes about one to five minutes. No more.
Note: the solo piano piece is selected, performed and recorded by George.
Use it under the gifts, or play it on its own, whenever you want a quieter background.
Quieter Evenings is created for people who already feel tired, not for people looking for a new challenge.
One tiny gift per day.
You never open a pile of exercises – only one small thing at a time.
Two versions for each gift.
A full version for days with a little room, and an even tinier version for rough days.
No streaks, no guilt.
There are no points, streak counters or “you missed a day” messages. If you skip an evening, the companion simply waits.
Clear edges.
It lasts 13 days. It ends. You can repeat it whenever you want, but there is no endless programme and no subscription pressure.
The aim is not to fix you or perfect you.
The aim is to offer you a few small ways to carry your days with less cost.
By the end of the 13 days, many people notice a shift they can feel in their body – a little more space between tasks, a little less urgency in the mind, and a clearer sense of what is enough for today.
Gentle safety note: this companion is educational and supportive, not medical advice. If you are in immediate danger, feel unable to keep yourself safe, or need urgent help, please contact your local emergency services or a trusted professional.
When you purchase this companion, you receive:
Unlimited access to the 13-day Almost Burned Out companion in your Not a Course space.
Eight light nervous-system gifts and five magical story-shift gifts, arranged in a carefully tested pattern.
Four ways to receive each gift: text only, text + piano soundtrack, voice only, and voice + musical bed.
All future refinements we might quietly add to this companion.
Approx. 52 USD / 39 GBP / 42 CHF / 72 CAD / 78 AUD.
One-time payment. No subscription. Lifetime access.
You keep access for as long as you want, and you are free to return to these gifts whenever your days start to tighten again.
Almost Burned Out might be the right companion for you if:
You are still functioning, but you can feel the cost rising.
You have tried to “push through” and you do not want to do that again.
You do not have the capacity for big changes right now, but you do have one to five minutes most days.
A small part of you is quietly hoping things can feel steadier, not perfect, just more sustainable.
If your stress mainly spills into the evening and bedtime, Quieter Evenings may meet you better.
If what drains you most is carrying other people, roles, and invisible responsibilities, Holding Everything Together may be the right place to start.
If, as you read this, someone specific comes to mind, a partner, a parent, a sibling, a friend who is functioning "fine" but you know is really tired, you can also give this companion to them as a unique and private gift.
We’ll create a beautiful, personalised digital voucher with:
a tender invitation into a steadier space
simple, clear instructions where to go and how to start
a personal gift code that unlocks their companion with a price of 0
If you’d like, we can also add their name, your name, and either a short message from you or a warm standard dedication from us, so it feels unmistakably meant for them.
You can choose to give the voucher yourself or ask us to send it directly, with or without your name.
If you’re considering this for someone you love, one small reassurance: Almost Burned Out isn’t a label.
It’s simply a name for a season many (or most) people recognise, even if they would never describe themselves that way.
And because every voucher is quietly personalised, we’ll tailor the details you share, and for Almost Burned Out we can include a softer line beneath the title: "A 13-day companion for high-pressure weeks and steadier days."
If there is even a small part of you that wants life to feel steadier,
Almost Burned Out is here to walk beside you for thirteen days and see what can gently shift.