Hi everyone, I’m Maria! I am a Bulgarian-American, living in Washington, DC. I have an M.A. from Johns Hopkins and 18 years of experience working as an antitrust economist

Over the past 4 years, I have also been working as a burnout and stress-management coach, helping my clients change their experience at work and feel a lot less overwhelmed and exhausted!

I spent the vast majority of my life pushing myself to overachieve and overdeliver, because to me those were inextricable parts of my identity

As a result, I found myself frequently overwhelmed and dreaming of taking a break but never being able to relax

Not surprisingly, I felt stuck in a cycle of constant stress, exhaustion, and anxiety

Let Me Give You a Few Examples:

During my first semester in college, I remember seeing the movie Office Space for the first time and being so intensely jealous of the main character when he allowed himself to sleep in one weekend day instead of going to work. Having a morning to just relax and sleep in seemed unfathomable given my unbearably overwhelming to-do list

I once spent an evening sitting on the bathroom floor of my office, crying and trying to battle a debilitating migraine so that I can go back to my desk and keep pushing through a few more hours of work to meet an internal project deadline

During another intense period at work, I remember getting a stomach ache a few weeks before a deadline and dreaming that it would be appendicitis and I would have a legitimate excuse to not work on my project anymore until the deadline had passed

What coaching helped me realize is, while I could not change how many emails I got or how fast a deadline was approaching, I could change how I experienced my work to make it a lot less stressful and a lot more manageable

Learning how to manage that overwhelm and constant anxiety was a game changer

I was able to still excel at my work while feeling a lot less pressure and a lot more freedom (even when nothing external actually changed)

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I want to teach you how to do the same!

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