Karina Featured on FRIED. The Burnout Podcast

The passage from stress leave to a full return to work is neither linear nor instantaneous. In this episode, career reintegration coach Karina Schneider argues that stepping back into the workplace is an active stage of recovery—one that calls for deliberate pacing, realistic expectations and shared responsibility between employee and employer. Karina explores the common emotional turbulence that accompanies the first weeks after mental-health leave—from lingering fatigue to the fear of under-p...