You've spent years working toward systems change in your field, and working yourself to your limits has become a regular occurrence. Maybe you've had a burnout diagnosis already. Systems change work is hard, but often it isn’t the work itself that drains most of your energy. 

Most days you spend more time on the ‘work around the work’, the fundraising, the admin, the team issues, than on the change itself, and it can feel like a hamster wheel you have to keep spinning. There's no end in sight: whenever stability felt within reach, it slipped through your fingers and the next fire flared up.

And it can be lonely. Even among other changeworkers, sometimes it feels like nobody quite understands why your work seems so much harder, and some even ask why you don't just do something easier.

Here's what I've come to believe: this is a systemic issue. This work is chronically underfunded, and under supported. Telling systems change leaders to simply cope better can't be the only thing we do. 

This season isn't asking you to grit your teeth and carry more. It's asking how this work could become regenerative for YOU, not just for the world, so you can keep going without it hollowing you out. How you can possibly scale your contribution to the next level, without this turning you into a Sisyphus with even a bigger boulder. That takes real support, and people who genuinely understand this particular weight.

What helps most now is companionship on the path, strategic support that meets you where you are, and a community that gets it, so the load is shared and the work becomes sustainable. The good news are you’re not alone, and there are ways to lessen the load. We’re here to help ❤