Personal experience
My confidence came back.
SuzanneBurnout · translated from Dutch
“A few days after the first session, I already felt different.”
In the author’s own words
Suzanne’s own words
Public first-person account · translated from Dutch
I believe that people cross your path for a reason. Sometimes at the moments when you need them most. That is how I found Mark through Google, and from our first meeting I felt safe and at ease. No impersonal questionnaire, no standard advice, but a direct connection with someone who truly saw what I was going through.
I had been at home with burnout for almost five months. My body gave up: constant muscle tension, exhaustion, a mind that never stopped. The doctors did not know. ‘Stress,’ they said. But how do you solve that when your body will not cooperate? How do you recover when sleep is a battle, when you can no longer trust your own thoughts?
In the author’s own words
The turning point
From the same account · translated from Dutch
A week after my first meeting with Mark, I began my journey. No months-long therapies, no medication, but an approach that went straight to the heart of the matter. And what I had not thought possible happened: a few days after the first session, I already felt different. As if I had found a lost part of myself again. The confidence I had lost returned. No doctor had managed that in all those months. Mark does not let go of you. He is there.
Not only during the sessions, but afterwards too. With knowledge, with openness, with the conviction that you yourself hold the key to change. That insight alone has changed my life.
In the author’s own words
The journey towards self-knowledge
From the same account · translated from Dutch
I am enormously grateful for the lessons and insights I’ve gained along the way. But this is not a miracle cure. It requires motivation. It requires willpower. You have to be willing to look at what you have ignored for years. To learn to listen to your body instead of ignoring it. The foundation has been laid, but I want more. To understand more about how my body works, how I can direct my own energy better. That is why I have decided to continue with Mark.
Not because I want to ‘get better’, but because I want to grow.
In the author’s own words
An appeal to doctors and employers
From the same account · translated from Dutch
If there is one message I can give doctors and employers, it is this: look beyond medical science alone. Stress, burnout and physical symptoms cannot be captured only in blood test results and scans. People are more than a collection of symptoms. Sometimes the solution is not a pill, but a new perspective. Not only treating, but understanding. Not only healing, but transforming.
To everyone who feels stuck, who thinks there is no way out: there is always a way back to yourself. You only have to be willing to walk it.
— Suzanne (46), HI-Ambacht