Leadership Trauma Is Real: What Twenty-Five Years in the C-Suite Taught Me About Nervous System Collapse

You are the one everyone looks to, and you have not had a single safe place to say how heavy it has become. Burnout is an energy problem that rest can fix. What you may be carrying is leadership trauma — a nervous system worn down by years of isolated, high-stakes responsibility. Here is what it is, written from twenty-five years inside the C-suite, and what healing the collapse actually involves.