Before
Where it started
« Je n'arrivais plus à sortir avant midi. Ce n'était pas de la tristesse, c'était du vide. »
After burnout
Lausanne
“I held on until I couldn't.”
Eight months off work. Élodie came to Kaina “to check there was still someone left”.
Élodie, 38 Lausanne · Signature Pass
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“I'd been looked after. Nobody had helped me look at myself again.”
Her day
In four images
From arrival to portrait.
Every Kaina day follows the same movement: arriving, talking, letting yourself be photographed, and leaving with an image that stands as proof.
10.50 am
The warmth coming back
« On m'a laissée me taire. C'est la première fois qu'on ne me demandait pas d'aller mieux. »
3.20 pm
“I can't do this”
« J'ai dit non trois fois. Et puis j'ai ri, et la photographe a déclenché. »
5.40 pm
What she took home
« Je ne me trouve pas belle sur cette photo. Je me trouve vivante. C'est beaucoup mieux. »
Her story
Élodie, 38
In her own words.
Élodie was off work for eight months. It took her a long time to use the word burnout: “I said tiredness, I said a rough patch, I said anything but the real word”.
Her day was built as a Signature, with the explicit option of stopping everything at any moment. “That's what made it possible for me to come: knowing I could leave.”
The morning was slow. A lot of silences, a blanket, some tea. Nobody tried to make her talk. The photo session didn't begin until after 3 pm, and at first she refused.
“What got me was that nobody ever said ‘smile’. They said: stay there, breathe, we have time. Nobody had told me we had time in two years.”
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