Great article. While we would all like to avoid these “falling over the cliff” experiences, I think we actually have to go through them to gain the insights that you share. We look back and think, “If only I knew then what I know now”, but we wouldn’t know what we know now without having been in the throes of burnout or other manifestations of depending on our maladaptive coping mechanisms. We seem to require such extreme experiences in which these coping processes are clearly and unequivocally failing us in order to do the internal deep dive that you describe. The key is to do just that, and I think it’s the exception rather than the rule.