Burned Out & Coming Home

You know that feeling where you're technically functioning but also absolutely not okay?
Where you've said "I'm fine" so many times you've almost convinced yourself? Where the idea of socialising sounds lovely in theory and completely exhausting in practice? Where you can't remember the last time you did something that wasn't either productive or recovery from being productive?
Yes. That.
This group is for you.

Burned Out & Coming Home is a warm, genuinely low-pressure community in Putney, SW London — for anyone navigating burnout, chronic stress, overwhelm, or the particular exhaustion of being a human being who has been holding too much for too long.

We meet regularly. We go outside. We drink coffee. We talk — or we don't, if that's where we are. We breathe together sometimes. We have been known to sing karaoke with varying degrees of talent and uniform degrees of commitment. 🎤

Nobody is going to ask you to network. Nobody is going to give you a worksheet. Nobody is going to suggest you just need to think more positively.

What we actually do:

🌿 Walk on the Commons — Putney and Wimbledon Common on our doorstep. Fresh air, green space, and the kind of conversation that only happens when you're moving. Dogs extremely welcome. Squirrels tolerated.

☕ Casual indoor meets — A café, a drink, a room full of people who understand why you needed a twenty-minute sit in your car before coming in. No judgement. We've all been there.

🌬️ Free breathwork and nervous system sessions — Practical tools for stress and recovery, guided by Cristina. Genuinely useful. Genuinely free. No experience required, no special breathing talent necessary. You've been breathing your whole life — you're already qualified.

🎤 Karaoke nights — Because sometimes the most therapeutic thing is singing Bohemian Rhapsody badly with a room full of people who are also singing it badly. Science probably backs this up somewhere.

🌳 Whatever else emerges — Picnics, shared meals, walks in other lovely green spaces. This community will shape itself.

A few things worth knowing:
You can come once and never return. You can lurk quietly for three meetups before saying a word to anyone. You can arrive late, leave early, and spend the whole time talking to someone's dog. All of this is completely fine and frankly quite relatable.

There is no pressure to share anything personal. There is no homework. There are no worksheets. (We really can't stress the no worksheets thing enough.)

You don't need to have it together. None of us do.

Fair warning: this is a brand new group, so the first few of us will be the founding members. Which sounds grander than it is. Mostly it means we get to figure out the biscuit situation together. 🍪

If you're nervous about coming alone — this is a brand new group, which means you won't be the only one walking in not knowing anyone. We're all starting from the same place. Somehow that makes it easier.

This group was founded by Cristina — a certified breathwork instructor and nervous system regulation practitioner who came to this work not from a textbook but from her own burnout, her own rock bottom, and her own slow, imperfect, occasionally surprising journey back.

She has walked on these Commons through the hardest months of her life. She has stood by the pond watching cormorants open their wings on a danger sign and thought: yes, actually, that's exactly it.

She built this community because no one should have to find their way back alone.

You are welcome here exactly as you are. Even on the days — especially on the days — when that doesn't feel like enough.

Come as you are. The Commons will do the rest. 🌿

Facebook group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/comeasyouarelondon