Alive after Five:
4 days of intentional fun for highly-sensitive professionals tired of surviving their weeks and ready to jump start their burnout recovery journey.
A four-day challenge for hsps to rediscover
fun and start healing burnout at the root.
Monday, July 20th - Thursday, July 23rd
Summer was when it was all supposed to slow down… right?
Stress is still here, just warmer.
Vacations were supposed to reset you. The longer days were supposed to lift your mood.
But instead, there are deadlines, packed schedules, and you’re still checking slack at 9pm, still running through your to-do list before you even open your eyes in the morning.
You're watching the calendar knowing exactly what's coming. The September ramp-up. Q3 into the end-of-year hustle. An inbox that’s never getting to 0, no matter how much you try to get ahead.
And you're heading into all of it already running on empty.
As someone whose nervous system processes stress more deeply than 80% of the population, you just don’t “shake off” the stress like your non-HSP colleagues. You hold onto all the stress, emotions and energy of the day—even when you try your best not to.
You don’t want to keep going like this, but every self-care hack you’ve tried or PTO you’ve taken brings you right back to the same place: tired, irritable, overwhelmed.
Because the season might have changed, but your nervous system didn’t.
You don’t need another vacation.
You need to learn how to play again.
You practice self care like a second job. You’ve done yoga, taken PTO, walked outside on your lunch breaks and even tried a few meditations on the Headspace app.
You used to do things for fun. Cooking new recipes instead of microwaving weekly meal preps, reading books instead of just emails, using your hands to craft instead of just type up reports.
As an HSP, you’re naturally creative, imaginative, and deep. But lately, burnout has made you feel anything but.
Your nervous system needs what it’s been desperately craving for months, even years: fun.
The science supports this. When we’re in burnout, we lose access to the “play” state, where we can feel excited and activated, but still feel safe.
It’s why you sit down to watch a show and scroll on your phone the whole time, or make plans with friends and wish you were home the whole time.
Play is one of the most underused tools for a healthy nervous system. And also one most burned-out HSPs completely miss…
Introducing Alive after Five: a 4-day challenge for HSPs who honestly can’t remember the last time they did something “just for fun”—and want their evenings and weekends back.
📅 Monday, july 20 - Thursday, july 23
What you’ll walk away with:
✨ Daily voice-memo lessons and activity prompts that teach you the science behind play, and how to make it a staple in your busy life to start healing burnout.
✨ A private Slack community of other professional HSPs who are in the same season (and understand what it’s like to lie to get out of a post-work happy hour)
✨ A personalized play toolkit and nervous system foundation you can use every day (instead of waiting for things to magically get better—or busier).
👉 This is not a “fun for the sake of fun” challenge.
It’s intentional, science-backed regulation that will help you enjoy your evenings again, leave work at work, and start feeling like your stress isn't controlling your entire life.
What you’ll get inside Alive after Five!
Learn your default play style to make play second nature, not a chore
As an HSP, not all play is “fun” for you. You’ll learn what works specifically for your nervous system so you know how to play in a way that lights you tf up!
Four days, big impact.
Develop your own fun “menu” and nervous system toolkit
So you have easy, go-to play ideas you can use now and when things get busier (and crazier), later.
Experience root-cause nervous system work
Get a feel for what nervous system regulation actually feels like and entails, in an easy-to-consume, small-dose format.
Accountability and daily support from Coach Grace
Get live slack support inside the Challenge community, plus, a 1-hour Challenge Q&A call hosted by Grace on Thursday, July 23rd at 6:30pm ET!
🎉 Bonus!
One lucky participant will win a free, 30-minute coaching call with Grace—no strings attached! Use your session to assess your burnout, pin-point your stressors and get a custom plan with personalized regulation tools to start getting relief fast ($150 value).
Join Alive after Five for $37!
"Hi, I’m Grace!”
Seven years ago, a career transition broke me open.
High-functioning on the outside, but battling overwhelm and anxiety on the inside.
I’d get nauseous before meetings, road rage in an hour+ long commute, would snap at my partner over nothing, numbing out every evening just to survive the next day.
I'd done therapy. I understood myself deeply. And I was still miserable.
It wasn't until I started working directly with my nervous system that I finally started to feel better.
I stopped getting chronic headaches. I could relax at night without a glass of wine. I walked into hard meetings without my stomach in knots. My job became…well, just a job, not this big thing running my life and slowly eroding my health.
Now I teach sensitive professionals the framework and tools I wish I'd had back then.
Because the science couldn’t be clearer: highly sensitive people literally have nervous systems that process more stimuli, stress, and emotion. Research shows that the higher your sensitivity, the higher your burnout risk, and it comes down to our unique physiology.
But your sensitivity can also be your greatest asset—in work and in life—once you learn how to work with your nervous system.
Now, as a board-certified health coach and nervous system specialist, I teach other highly sensitive professionals how to get out of burnout and stop living in survival mode for good, so they don’t have to choose between their career and their health.
What other HSPs are saying:
“Instead of feeling like I’m just constantly playing catch-up and trying to summon the energy to halfway enjoy an active ‘fun’ calendar, I’ve established a new baseline that lets me do more and isn’t as easily shaken.”
“Thanks to the work we did together, I am rediscovering my love for reading and music and I genuinely feel happier and more joyful. There have been moments where I have almost cried of happiness because I truly cannot believe how I am feeling.”
“I finally have the energy and space to enjoy life again—to simply feel without constantly being overwhelmed. But what surprised me the most was that I didn’t just build resilience to stress; I also find myself appreciating the little things more and feeling joy every single day.”
Play is not a luxury, it’s a biological necessity.
Adults need play, too.
We don’t stop needing to play the moment we hit adulthood.
Burnout may make us feel unplayful, but it’s also a powerful way to help you get out of survival mode.
Because the longer you stay there, the harder it is to climb out without help.
And sooner or later, stress comes to collect.
Every day between now and then your nervous system stays stuck in burnout. Those patterns that keep you anxious, irritable, and exhausted get more entrenched and old coping mechanisms no longer work.
And to reverse the damage, your nervous system needs something new to experience.
That’s what four days inside Alive after Five can give you.
The next busy season will be here before you know it. Stress isn’t stopping. Not now, not ever, and especially not as an HSP.
But you can get started breaking out of burnout AND build your inner strength to handle the demands of the Fall—and beyond.
What you learn inside Alive after Five isn’t another coping strategy to add to the list of things that kinda-sorta help but don’t solve the main problem. This is the first step of giving your nervous system something actually new.
So the question is simple…
You can keep coping. Or you can learn how to play.