from Exhaustion to Growth
Burnout Doesn’t Mean You’re Broken
The compassionate burnout-prevention course for mental health nurses who are carrying too much.
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Is this course for me?
For mental health nurses who are tired, but still showing up.
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance something in your work has been taking more out of you than it used to. You may still be functioning well. You still care deeply about your patients and your colleagues. You may still be doing everything that’s asked of you and more. From the outside, you might even look “fine.”
And yet, somewhere underneath, you may recognise a quieter truth:
that the work feels heavier, that recovery takes longer, or that parts of you feel more worn down than you expected.
Burnout Breakthrough is for nurses who notice these early shifts, not because they are failing, but because they are paying attention.
Burnout Breakthrough
From exhaustion to sustainable growth
Burnout is not a personal weakness.
For mental health nurses, it is often the predictable result of caring deeply, for a long time, in complex and emotionally demanding systems.
Burnout Breakthrough is a preventative burnout programme designed specifically for mental health nurses. It supports individuals and organisations to address burnout early — before it becomes crisis, absence, or exit — through practical, compassionate, and evidence-informed approaches.
This is not a programme that asks nurses to “be more resilient” in unsafe conditions. It is not a short-term well-being fix.
It is a structured, flexible course that helps nurses recognise burnout patterns, restore depleted systems, rediscover meaning, and grow in sustainable ways — without asking for more than they realistically have to give.
You do not need to be at breaking point to be here.
This course is not about crisis
You do not need a diagnosis, a label, or a period of absence.
Burnout rarely begins with collapse. It begins with subtle changes:
- carrying work home more than you used to
- feeling emotionally flatter or more irritable
- waking up already tired
- losing patience with things that once felt manageable
- sensing that your own needs have slipped quietly to the bottom of the list
These experiences are common in mental health nursing, and they are not a personal weakness. They are often the earliest signs that the balance between giving and recovering has been lost. This course is designed for that moment.
This course is for you if…
This programme has been created for mental health nurses who want practical support to prevent burnout, restore balance, and protect their ability to care — without guilt or overwhelm.
- You are still working, but feel increasingly depleted
- You care deeply about your work, yet feel less like yourself within it
- You want to protect your wellbeing before things worsen
- You are tired of being told to “be more resilient”
- You want support that fits around real shifts, not ideal circumstances
Many nurses who take this course don’t describe themselves as “burnt out.”
They describe themselves as exhausted, stretched, or quietly worn down and wanting to prevent that from becoming something more serious.
The first burnout prevention course in the world designed specifically for mental health nurses.
Burnout Breakthrough is grounded in established burnout, wellbeing, and behavioural science literature and built from:
- 28 years of clinical nursing experience
- Years of specialisation in burnout prevention and coaching
- Over 140 one-to-one coaching cases with mental-health nurses
- Early-stage research demonstrating measurable improvements in wellbeing, clarity, boundaries, and role sustainability
- A deep understanding of the 25 distinct drivers of nursing burnout
This course doesn’t just reduce burnout symptoms.
It strengthens retention, supports staff wellbeing, and helps nurses reconnect with the meaning and stability required to stay in the profession if they want to.
Inside Burnout Breakthrough
Lessons, interventions, and support used your way, at your pace.
Change rarely fails because people don’t care. It fails because the approach asks too much. Sustainable change doesn’t come from insight alone.
It comes from safety, repetition, and low effort.
When the nervous system is under prolonged strain, large or complex interventions can add pressure rather than relieve it, even when they’re well-intentioned. Motivation becomes unreliable. Memory falters. Follow-through feels harder than it should. This isn’t a personal failing. It’s how stress works.
That’s why Burnout Breakthrough is built around very small practices, introduced gradually and supported over time.
One or two practices, not a long list – We encourage working with just one or two interventions at a time. So that practices become automatic and stop costing energy, and begin to return energy.
This is not a course you “work through” in order – Burnout does not follow a neat or identical path and neither do nurses. You are not expected to complete every lesson, or to move through the material in a fixed sequence.
The course is designed to be a resource you return to, not a checklist you finish – Pick and choose what meets you where you are without pressure to “keep up” or complete everything.
Repetition matters more than motivation – Burnout often disrupts motivation, memory, and consistency. That’s not a character flaw, it’s a nervous system doing its best under sustained load. Gentle prompts and reminders before, during, and after shifts, and on days off help practices settle naturally into daily life.
A pace that protects against overwhelm – Many nurses notice changes quietly at first feeling slightly less braced, recognising stress earlier, recovering a little more quickly. These shifts matter. They are often the first signs that the burnout cycle is being interrupted.
Burnout Breakthrough is not a course you “push through.” It’s a structured, guided resource that you can draw from at your own pace, choosing what supports you and leaving what doesn’t, and returning when you’re able.
That flexibility is not a compromise.
It’s what makes the course sustainable.
A Different Way Through Burnout
A flexible, nurse-led approach you can shape around your own needs.
How the Course Works
Across 25 individual lessons, you’ll explore the drivers of burnout that mental-health nurses face every day, from emotional overload to system fatigue, boundary erosion, sleep disruption, moral distress, paperwork burden, vicarious trauma, and the slow grief of purpose depletion.
Each lesson guides you through four phases:
- Recognition: Understanding what’s happening beneath the surface, not just intellectually, but emotionally and physiologically.
- Restoration: Rebalancing your nervous system, regulating stress responses, and rebuilding emotional and physical energy.
- Rediscovery: Reconnecting with your values, identity, strengths, curiosity, and sense of direction.
- Growth: Emerging stronger, clearer, and wiser with boundaries, perspective, renewed purpose, and a sustainable path forward.
You will be guided through:
- Vignettes: Stories that help you see yourself more clearly and to recognise the early signs of burnout. Allowing you to see your experience mirrored safely and compassionately.
- Journaling: Evidence-based reflection is one of the strongest, research-supported tools for emotional processing, self-awareness, nervous system regulation, cognitive flexibility, boundary repair and identity recovery.
- Real-life interventions you can actually use on shift. Every lesson includes trauma-informed interventions tailored to the realities of mental-health nursing.
Including pre-shift grounding rituals, during-shift micro-interventions, post-shift decompression tools and days-off restoration practices. - Each lesson also gives you an “as-needed” stress-cycle completion practice, including movement, breathwork, grounding, sound, release, bilateral stimulation, or tension–reset sequences that help your body discharge what nursing shifts accumulate.
Support you can access whenever and wherever you need it.
The Burnout Wellness App
The entire programme is integrated within our very own Burnout Wellness app which you can access from any device, allowing you to:
- Access guided 1–2 minute interventions on shift
- Follow stress-cycle resets in real time
- Use breathwork or grounding tools between patients
- Complete micro-breaks that fit realistically into nursing workflows
- Keep your nervous system supported throughout the day
A course you can live, not just learn.
Our “pick-and-choose” design, which adapts to you, allows you to take the lessons in any order; however, burnout is not linear. You can explore whichever of the 25 burnout drivers resonates most today, such as sleep disruption, boundary collapse, over-functioning, boredom, moral distress, emotional overload, or “the weight of forever.”
The course adapts to your reality, not the other way around.
Why this course matters
This course is here because you deserve a career that does not devour you. Because:
- The system may take time to change, but your health, identity, and sense of meaning cannot wait for policy reform.
- Early intervention prevents nurses from feeling forced to leave a profession they care
deeply about. - Your well-being matters as much as the well-being of the people you serve.
- And with the right tools, you can move from exhaustion… to recognition… to
restoration… to rediscovery… to sustained, grounded growth.
This course is the resource I wish I’d had. It is my way of giving back to the profession that shaped me and ensuring no mental-health nurse has to face burnout without a map, without support, or without hope.
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Ready to get started?
Burnout Breakthrough is available to individual nurses as a one-off purchase, with full access to the complete course including:
- 25 teaching videos with reflective vignettes, insights, interventions and journal prompts
- Guided meditation library
- Practical micro-intervention library
- Calendar feature with reminders
- Optional journaling prompts
The launch price is £249 for a limited period, with optional instalment options available if spreading the cost feels more manageable.
There is no subscription, no expiry pressure, and no expectation to complete everything.
If you’re exploring access for your workplace, university, or Trust, separate organisational options are available here.
What taking this course actually feels like.
One of the most common concerns nurses have before starting a course like this is not whether it would help but whether it would become another thing to keep up with. Burnout Breakthrough was designed with that concern at its core.
This is not a course that asks you to carve out large blocks of time, sit through long lectures, or radically reorganise your life. It is built to fit into the reality of mental health nursing, long shifts, emotional carry-over, variable energy, and limited headspace. Most people describe the experience not as “doing a course,” but as being gently accompanied for a period of time.
The pace is intentionally slow
There is no rush, no countdown, and no expectation to complete everything quickly. You move through the course at your own pace. Some weeks you may engage more; other weeks, less. Nothing breaks if you pause. Nothing is “failed” if you step away and return later. The emphasis is on continuity, not intensity, staying in gentle contact with yourself rather than pushing for transformation.
The tone is human, not instructional
The videos are short, conversational, and grounded in real experience. They are designed to feel like someone sitting alongside you, helping you make sense of what you’re carrying, not telling you what you should be doing.
There is no performance, no assessment, and no requirement to share anything with anyone else. Many nurses say the most relieving part is the absence of pressure.
The practices are small by design
Rather than offering lots of techniques at once, the course encourages working with one or two small practices at a time, allowing them to settle and become familiar before anything new is introduced.
This approach is intentional. Change that lasts rarely comes from doing more, it comes from doing less, more consistently, in ways that don’t overwhelm the nervous system. You are never asked to overhaul your routines or add long practices to your day.
You choose how deeply you engage
Some participants mainly listen and reflect. Others use the journaling prompts. Some focus on the meditations. Some rely most on the short, app-based reminders. There is no “right” way to take this course. You are trusted to know what you need, and to engage in ways that feel supportive rather than burdensome.
This course respects your working life
Burnout Breakthrough is designed to sit alongside your work not in opposition to it. Many of the practices can be done:
- seated
- briefly
- during a break
- between tasks
- or at home, when you’re already tired
Nothing here assumes ideal conditions or unlimited energy.
What many nurses notice first
People rarely report dramatic changes at the beginning. Instead, they notice quieter shifts:
- feeling slightly less braced
- recognising stress earlier
- responding with more kindness
- recovering a little more quickly
- feeling less alone with what they carry
These early changes matter. They are often the first signs that the burnout cycle is being interrupted.
Discover the five stages of burnout in nursing.
I’ll walk you through the five stages of burnout and how burnout can develop and become embedded over time. You may find that one of these stages resonates strongly with your own experience. That recognition matters – it’s often the first gentle step toward change.
Questions You Might Be Asking (And Honest Answers)
It’s common to arrive at this point with questions, especially if you’re already tired. Here are some answers to some frequently asked questions, but if something isn’t answered here, please get in touch, and I will be happy to
No.
Burnout Breakthrough is designed for early recognition and prevention, not just for crisis. Many nurses who take the course are still working, still coping, and still caring but notice that the work is taking more from them than it used to.
If you’re sensing early warning signs and want to protect yourself before things worsen, this course was built with you in mind.
No.
This course is not therapy, counselling, or clinical treatment. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace mental health care.
It is a preventative, educational, and reflective course designed to support awareness, nervous-system regulation, and sustainable ways of working alongside whatever other support you may already have.
That’s expected and accounted for.
Burnout Breakthrough was designed specifically for people with limited time, fluctuating energy, and full working lives. The practices are short, optional, and introduced gradually. You are encouraged to work with just one or two small practices at a time.
Some weeks you may engage more. Some weeks less. Nothing breaks if you pause.
No and this matters.
Burnout is not a uniform experience, and this course is not meant to be followed rigidly from start to finish. Many nurses find that only a handful of lessons are relevant to their situation at any given time.
You are encouraged to pick and choose what feels most supportive, and to return to different parts of the course as your circumstances change.
You can’t fall behind.
There are no deadlines, no assessments, and no expectation of continuous engagement. If you stop for a week or longer you are welcome to return exactly where you left off.
Burnout Breakthrough is designed as a resource you can come back to, not something you need to complete.
Yes.
Many of the reflections and practices are designed to be done whilst working:
- seated
- briefly
- during a break
- between tasks
- or at home when you’re already tired
Nothing in the course assumes ideal conditions or protected time.
Most nurses report the opposite.
Rather than increasing rumination, the course often helps people notice stress earlier and let go of it more gently, so it doesn’t build up or follow them home as intensely.
The emphasis is on awareness with kindness not analysis or overthinking.
That’s okay.
You don’t need certainty to be here. You’re allowed to explore, reflect, and decide in your own time. There is no pressure to enrol, commit, or move forward before you’re ready.
Sometimes the most important thing is simply recognising where you are and knowing that support exists if and when you want it.
If you feel you need further psychological or well-being support whilst taking the course, we can signpost you in the right direction. However, in an emergency situation, we advise contacting your healthcare provider.
If you have any questions, need technical support or help with using the course app or platform, please feel free to reach out to us at chris@burnoutwellness.com and we’ll be happy to help.
The course is built within our very own web-based app, this means you do not have to download the app from your app store, you can simply add to your device from your browser. The app is available for Apple and Android devices, laptop or desktop computer and even for your smart TV. Alternatively, you can access directly from your browser, however we fully recommend downloading the app for the best experience.
You can add the app to all of your devices – just login with the same account details you set up on sign-up.
You will find a simple app download guide by clicking on this link or from the main menu on the course homepage from browser.
Chris Salt
Meet Chris
I’m Chris Salt, a Burnout Specialist, Coaching Psychologist, and ex-mental health nurse. Burnout Wellness was born from my own journey through burnout and the drive to support others in finding lasting solutions, not just temporary relief. Here, I focus on empowering you to make transformative changes that last. I am passionate about helping individuals move beyond burnout to live with renewed purpose, vitality, and meaning.
Having personally experienced burnout twice during my career, I understand implicitly the toll it can take on every aspect of life, professionally, emotionally, and physically. My first episode followed almost 20 years of 24/7 on-call work in mental health nursing, which was so severe it necessitated a complete career change. The second (and to a lesser degree than the first) came whilst working in the construction industry and during an expensive and gruelling legal battle in three jurisdictions which lasted over 4 years after the 2008 financial crash, Each experience taught me resilience, self-compassion, and the skills needed to rebuild my life, and I am deeply committed to guiding others on their own journeys to recovery and thriving through these experiences. My mission is clear: to support individuals, like you, in reclaiming your lives, health, and energy which I have done myself quite adeptly, and I will share with you the skills required to do this within your own unique situation.
Ready to Begin Your Journey?
Are you ready to reclaim your energy and purpose? Burnout Wellness means gaining a compassionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated partner in your wellness journey. Together, we’ll rediscover your strength and resilience and help you move toward a life of balance and fulfilment.
