Burn Bright, Don’t Burn Out: How I Built a Business Framework from Bipolar Chaos
“I wasn’t broken. My mind was burning with ideas. The fire was beautiful — until it nearly consumed me.”
I’ve always had more ideas than time, more energy than sleep, and more vision than structure. For years, that made me feel powerful — unstoppable, even. Until it didn’t.
Until I built three ventures in six months and crashed harder than ever. Until I stayed up for four days straight, convinced I was rewriting the future of entrepreneurship. Until I spiraled out, again — and realized this wasn’t brilliance anymore. It was burnout in a crown of fire.
That’s when Axis Lucida was born.
🌪️ The Bipolar Hustle Trap
If you live with bipolar disorder — or any form of mood cycling — you know the seductive rush of the manic state. Suddenly, everything is clear. Your ideas sparkle with truth. You feel divinely tasked with something big. So you work. Obsess. Build. Convince others to believe.
And then comes the crash. The emptiness. The mess you made while chasing the light.
I lived this loop long enough to realize something vital: I didn’t need to stop burning — I needed to burn with direction.
💡 From Chaos to Clarity: Building Axis Lucida
I didn’t want another coping method. I wanted a system.
Not one built by people who never experienced mental instability — but one designed from within it. Something rooted in logic, structure, and truth. Something that would harness the brilliance of mania, shield against its shadows, and build things that actually last.
So I created Axis Lucida: a decision-making and collaboration framework built by a bipolar entrepreneur, for neurodiverse creators. It draws from:
- Personal experience,
- Psychiatric insights,
- Systems thinking,
- Boolean Logic, and
- The unwavering belief that we don’t need to be “fixed” — we need to be understood, structured, and supported.
📘 A Book Written in Fire and Precision
I wrote Burn Bright, Don’t Burn Out as both a memoir and a tactical guide.
Each chapter blends story and system:
- The dangers of untreated brilliance.
- The link between sleep, nutrition, and creative flow.
- How to design decision trees for manic phases.
- Mood tracking as business strategy.
- Boolean thinking as a sanity anchor.
It’s the book I needed five years ago. And maybe, the book someone else needs right now.
🎯 Who It’s For
- Bipolar and neurodivergent creatives trying to find structure.
- Founders who burn too bright and recover too slow.
- Therapists and coaches working with gifted minds that collapse under their own velocity.
- Anyone who knows what it’s like to build empires at night and question them in the morning.
🛠️ Axis Lucida Is Not a Self-Help Trend. It’s a System.
It’s not about “getting better.” It’s about getting grounded, getting strategic, and building a sustainable inner architecture for life and creation.
This is for the ones who oscillate between genius and doubt. Who crave both freedom and scaffolding. Who want to lead — but not at the cost of their sanity.
🔗 Ready to Burn Bright, with purpose?
👉 Buy the book on Amazon
👉 Or grab your free sample chapter here (you can also read it below).
👉 Learn more about the Axis Lucida Framework
Because it’s time we stopped calling chaos a flaw — and started calling it a system waiting to be refined.