I LOST THE PLOT LONG BEFORE I ROWED AN OCEAN

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Rowing unassisted across 3,000 miles of hostile open water felt the more sensible option to my day job.

 

If that logic makes sense to you right now, you're not broken. You're running on the wrong kind of resilience. There's a difference, and it's the whole ballgame.

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YOU'RE NOT BROKEN. YOU'RE BURNT OUT. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE

 

I burnt out badly enough to nearly not come back. I rowed the Atlantic to find out why, and what actually rebuilds a person afterwards.

 

Mine was not 'stressed at work,' it was signed off, irrational, can't-think-straight, head-in-hands, can't-go-on burnt out. I was global head of a multi-million dollar commodities business. Burnout laughs in the face of titles though, it doesn't care about your salary, or how capable or senior you are.

Deciding to row across the Atlantic might sound like the crisis. That actually came after. Mid-Atlantic is where I worked out the difference between sustainable resilience and the toxic kind that ran me into the ground in the first place. Gritting your teeth harder isn't a strategy. It's dangerous, wherever you are, but especially 1,500 miles from land. 

The crossing raised £160,000 for teenage mental health. Useful of course and I'm proud of that. But more useful was the skill I brought back, a working model of how people actually recover, versus how they pretend to.

I now help and protect individuals and organisations suffering from toxic resilience, using what actually happened to me, not a textbook.

 

I've done this work with the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, Thames Valley Police, Google, The Times, Smartstream, Resinex, Gamlin Solicitors, Fusion Consulting, SME Capital, Titan Wealth Management, Mint Twist, the NHS, mental health charities, and schools, amongst others. 

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