{"id":1520,"date":"2024-11-05T18:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biohealing.lu\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:10:00","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biohealing.lu\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Before becoming a practitioner, I lived what I now accompany<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Damien Portolano<\/h3>\t\t\t\t

Integrative support\nBurnout, Reconstruction & Reclaiming Momentum<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Pain, blockages, chronic stress and deep exhaustion \u2014 I support you in setting yourself in motion again, body and soul.<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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I’m Damien,
integrative practitioner \u2014 burnout & life reconstruction.<\/strong><\/h4>

And before becoming a practitioner, I lived what I now accompany.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

For 25 years, I worked in IT \u2014 leading systems, networks, teams. A world where everything is logical, structured, measurable. And yet, even there, I sensed that another part of me was looking for a way to express itself. I just didn’t know what it was yet.<\/p>

In May 2016, my brain shut down. One evening at 5pm, my eyes locked onto a single pixel on the screen. No more connection. Just enough lucidity to take the train, get back to Metz, and collapse.<\/p>

It was burnout. The real thing. Not a week off \u2014 six months of complete emptiness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

No physical energy. No emotions. No meaning. A wearing-down of the soul that I could never have understood without going through it from the inside. It was in this emptiness that the other path began to reveal itself.<\/p>

What this passage taught me, I couldn’t have learned any other way.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>

I worked with a psychologist. I observed everything, documented everything \u2014 how energy drains away on four levels at once: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. That’s where the PEMS method was born.<\/p>

Then I went back to study. A Master’s degree in professional coaching (RNCP Level 7), with a thesis devoted to the four dimensions of exhaustion. During Covid, while opening a practice in ayurvedic massage, I discovered something I hadn’t expected: my ability to sense and release the energies the body holds. Four years of training in shiatsu confirmed what I had been sensing \u2014 everything in the body is interconnected, exactly like the systems I had been managing in IT.<\/p>

And karate, which I have practised for 20 years, taught me something IT never gave me: the mastery of energy in motion. Sensing intention before the gesture. Channelling rather than enduring. It has become the invisible thread running through my entire approach.<\/p>

Today, I am not a practitioner because I studied burnout. I am a practitioner because I lived it, embodied it, understood it \u2014 and moved beyond it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

What I actually do<\/strong><\/h4>

Setting yourself in motion again after exhaustion isn’t something you can simply decide. It’s built layer by layer, at a pace that belongs to you.<\/p>

I support people through exhaustion \u2014 before, during, and after \u2014 with an integrative approach that combines:<\/p>

\u00bb Professional coaching<\/strong><\/span> (rebuilding meaning and direction)
\u00bb Energy work and magnetism<\/strong><\/span> (releasing what the body carries)
\u00bb Mindfulness-based hypnosis<\/strong><\/span> (understanding the roots, strengthening inner resources)
\u00bb Shiatsu<\/strong><\/span> (deep rebalancing)<\/p>

I do not intervene during the acute phase of burnout \u2014 that role belongs to conventional health professionals. But I’m there before things reach that point, and afterwards, so that reconstruction is sustainable and doesn’t leave the door open to a relapse.<\/p>

There is a before and an after burnout. The hardest part is setting yourself in motion again. That’s exactly where I come in \u2014 so that the “after” becomes your new beginning.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before becoming a practitioner, I lived what I now accompany My journey \u2014 from burnout to the PEMS method Damien Portolano Integrative support Burnout, Reconstruction & Reclaiming Momentum Pain, blockages, chronic stress and deep exhaustion \u2014 I support you in setting yourself in motion again, body and soul. Get in touch I’m Damien,integrative practitioner \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1516,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1520","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nMy journey \u2014 From IT to burnout to integrative practice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"25 years in IT, a burnout in 2016, a complete rebuild. 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