I'm Abbey. A few years ago I walked away from a career in law and banking that I had spent two decades building: a high performer who was quietly languishing. There were no guardrails stopping me from doing more, so I did. I kept running away from the issues at hand, literally, by taking on very hard things, like a self-supported 250km race across the desert.

Then, my body made a decision I wasn't willing to make myself. I burnt out in a way I didn't have language for at the time, and spent the better part of 18 months putting myself back together. I haven't run since. It turned out I didn't need to keep running away.

I rebuilt slowly, with a lot of help. I had already trained as a coach, and then I studied the science: allostatic load, HRV, and what chronic stress actually does to a nervous system that was never built for the way most of us live today.

Packhorse is what came out the other side. I work with high performers who are still delivering but realising they may be running on empty, to show that high performance doesn't have to cost you yourself. I built what I wish someone had offered me: an approach that takes the load seriously, measures what's actually happening in the body, and gives you practical tools, not platitudes.