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Bounce back from burnout.
Introducing the first mobile app specially designed to help users navigating work burnout.
Bonsai uses evidence-based, empirical methods to evaluate your burnout risk, explain how burnout works, and provide customized recommendations to speed your own recovery.
Built by burnout experts.
Bonsai’s founding team includes a psychologist and entrepreneur who overcame burnout together .
Bonsai is the outcome of years of academic research, coaching practice, and firsthand experience guiding people through burnout recovery.
A real story of burnout
After burning out twice in two years and subsequently finding a more sustainable way forward with work and life, Bonsai Co-Founder Gabe decided to share his personal story and experience with burnout and also Quarter-Life Crisis. The book includes research on the science and psychology, key learnings, and recommendations for others navigating these difficult life experiences.
”What sets this book apart is its reliance on well-researched sources and proven studies. It's not just another self-help book; it's a roadmap backed by solid evidence. The author's experiences make the advice resonate deeply, creating a connection that goes beyond mere guidance.”– Fateha
“Loved how the topic was beautifully covered. Can’t sum it up more..this was overall a brilliant book! Keep up the good work!” – Mercedes
“If you're in your 20s or 30s, constantly feeling tired and wondering "what am I doing with my life", this book is for you. I loved every page of it, thanks to Gabe's vulnerability, witty observations, apt metaphors and useful coaching techniques.” – Ariel
Our 3 E’s
Evaluation: complete a burnout assessment.
Through thoughtful self-assessments, Bonsai helps you explore where you stand in relation to burnout — not as a diagnosis, but as an invitation to awareness. You’ll discover what’s currently draining your energy, which inner strengths you may be overlooking, and how different areas of life may be out of sync.
Education: understand burnout.
With accessible lessons in text, audio, and video form, Bonsai offers empowering knowledge about burnout — including its deeper causes, systemic influences, and personal dynamics. It’s not just about “fixing” symptoms, but about understanding the bigger picture of what your experience might be telling you.
Empowerment: understand what you can do.
Bonsai provides personalized guidance with specific, manageable recommendations. These small, life-affirming steps are designed to support realignment with what matters most to you, helping you restore balance, vitality, and self-trust at your own pace. Bonsai is empowering you to make the changes needed.
What is Burnout?
Burnout is an exhausted or demotivated state that anyone can fall into, after trying for too long to live up to either your own or others' expectations.
The problem at the core of burnout isn't about having a high bar of standard – the problem is when the expectations you're trying to meet keep getting higher, no matter how hard you try – or, that the expectations you've been asked to meet don't align with your own view of how things should be done.
In other words: when the expectations you're pursuing have come to feel either meaningless to you or utterly impossible, it's reasonable that you end up feeling burned out.
Who is Bonsai for?
High performers who are worn out from the constant pressure.
• Founders and entrepreneurs losing energy and motivation.
• Managers stretched thin by teams and stakeholders.
• Creative people wishing to get that spark back again.
• Anyone who wakes up feelixed, stuck, or wondering, “is this normal?”
The team behind Bonsai includes psychologists, coaches, and professionals who are not only trained to help people navigate the difficult straits of burnout, but have been through it firsthand, too.