Into the Embers Screenbook: A Path Through Burnout

Why We Wrote This

A few of you know exactly how this feels.
Well-lit office. Immaculate blazer. Gold watch ticking like a metronome while your inner voice whispers: I can’t keep this up.

This is not a breakdown story.
This is what comes before the fall — the applause, the perfect pitch, the quiet bathroom stall where the tears don’t fall because even crying feels like failure.

Into the Embers isn’t a call to quit. It’s an invitation to notice the burn before the collapse. A mirror held up to every high-functioning person who's ever clutched their coffee cup like a lifeline, smiled through the static, and convinced themselves they were just “a little tired.”

Each scene is fiction. And each scene is true. Inside you'll find:

• A "screenbook" that shows the interior cost of staying excellent while slowly disappearing via a screenplay
• Instructions for coming home without shattering in the embedded workbook
• Two threshold Tricksters that expose the truth to you, even when you don’t want to hear it

This isn’t entry level. It’s a firestarter. Keep it where you keep the secrets you’re almost ready to tell.