The Story

Burnout was just the front door.

I spent years believing that if I worked hard enough, gave enough, and held everything together, eventually I would feel like enough.

Instead, I hit a wall.

For a long time, I could not understand what had happened. It felt like I could not access the version of myself I had always known.

Getting diagnosed with AuDHD at 43 did not change who I was. It explained who I had always been.

Fireproof was the first song I wrote after I finally had language for what I had lived through.

It is not really about burnout. It is about the belief that got me there — that my worth depended on how much of myself I could give away.

I do not believe that anymore.

And if you have spent your life trying to earn love
by being useful, strong, or everything to everyone else —

I hope this song reminds you that you do not have to burn yourself down
to the ground to be loved.