After four months of solo-traveling through Madrid, Barcelona, and southern France, I’d say I know a thing or two about self-discovery. But really, this isn’t new for me. Every few years, I celebrate my own reinvention: starting a new job, moving to a new city, traveling from China to Costa Rica and back home to Chicago—sinking deeper into myself each time.

And at the start of every one of these self-discovery phases, I was thoroughly burnt out.