Burnout Recovery Coach · San Francisco

You optimised everything.
Except what was depleting you.

Burnout recovery for online entrepreneurs and digital creators in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Built for people who cannot simply stop. Grounded in a framework used by 35,000+ learners worldwide.

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Who this is for

Online entrepreneurs and digital creators
in San Francisco and the Bay Area

San Francisco and the Bay Area produce some of the most high-functioning, highly capable online entrepreneurs and digital creators in the world. The ecosystem rewards output, efficiency, and constant iteration. It also produces a very specific kind of burnout: the kind that arrives in people who have optimised everything except their own energy systems.

This work is for people who understand productivity deeply and are discovering that understanding is not the same as being able to recover.

The San Francisco context: burnout in a high-performance ecosystem

The Bay Area tech and startup culture has spread well beyond traditional employment. Online entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, and digital product creators in San Francisco have absorbed the same move fast, iterate constantly, and optimise everything ethos that drives the broader ecosystem, often without the funding, teams, or infrastructure that make that pace manageable for longer.

There is a particular pattern in SF-based solopreneurs and digital creators: a sophisticated understanding of performance, systems, and productivity, paired with a genuine blindspot around depletion. The culture here is fluent in optimisation and remarkably resistant to the idea that some things cannot be optimised away, that the nervous system has real limits that no framework, supplement, or morning routine fully addresses.

There is also a social dimension specific to this environment: the constant proximity to people who appear to be operating at higher levels, launching more, building more, growing faster. That proximity is generative and also quietly corrosive over time, feeding a specific kind of mental and emotional depletion that standard burnout conversations rarely address.

The 6 Types of Rest framework is well-suited to people who already understand systems and want a concrete diagnostic process. It maps which of the six energy systems are depleted, identifies what specifically restores each one, and provides a step-by-step recovery plan that can be implemented without pausing everything.

What is actually happening

Why rest alone
is not enough

For online entrepreneurs in San Francisco who have already tried the obvious solutions and found them insufficient, the missing piece is usually specificity. There are six distinct types of energy depletion and most recovery approaches address one or two while leaving the others completely untouched. The framework addresses all six.

This is what makes recovery move from something you are trying to do into something that is actually happening.

I had built systems for everything in my business. I had never applied the same rigour to understanding what was depleting me. Once I did, recovery became something I could actually execute rather than just intend.
Online entrepreneur, San Francisco
The course

A burnout recovery framework
built around your working life

The 6 Types of Rest course gives you the complete structure: what each type of energy depletion actually feels like, what genuinely restores each one, and a step-by-step process to build a personalised recovery plan that works with your schedule.

Identify what is depleted

The framework maps which of the six types is driving your specific symptoms, so you stop treating the wrong thing.

Build your recovery plan

A personalised plan built on your energy data, not generic advice designed for people who can simply take time off.

Keep the business running

Every element of the recovery process is structured to work alongside your existing commitments.

Prevent the next crash

You finish with a working system for maintaining your energy over the long term, not just surviving the current period.

About Solange Kiéma

Burnout recovery specialist.
35,000+ learners. 30+ courses.

I am Solange Kiéma. I specialise in burnout recovery for online entrepreneurs and digital creators, specifically the kind of exhaustion that does not respond to a weekend off because it was never just tiredness to begin with.

I have taught over 35,000 students on Insight Timer across more than 30 courses on burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, and building working rhythms that hold over years. My approach is grounded in the 6 Types of Rest framework, which identifies the specific energy systems that burnout depletes and provides concrete strategies for each one.

All sessions and courses are fully online. There is no travel involved.

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The framework appealed to me precisely because it was diagnostic. It told me which specific systems were depleted and what addressed each one. That level of specificity was what I needed.
Digital creator, Bay Area
Questions

Common questions

Do I need to attend sessions in person in San Francisco?
No. Everything is fully online. I work with clients across San Francisco and the Bay Area. Sessions are scheduled to work with your timezone and commitments.
Can I recover from burnout while still running my business?
Yes. The 6 Types of Rest framework is built specifically for people who cannot simply stop. Recovery is structured around your actual schedule, not an idealised pause.
How do I know if I am burnt out or just going through a difficult period?
A difficult period has an end point and you recover naturally when it passes. Burnout does not resolve on its own. If rest is not helping, that is the key signal.
Where do I start?
The free webinar is the clearest starting point. In one hour you will understand the 6 Types of Rest framework and whether this work applies to your situation.
Next step

Start here:
the free webinar.

One hour. You leave with a clear understanding of the 6 Types of Rest framework and whether this work is right for you.