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Become the captain of your own care

Become the Captain: a three-step method for redesigning a full practice so it stops drowning you.

For self-employed midwives, nurses and therapists who are booked out and worn down. Set a caseload you can sustain, take real time off without losing clients, and get admin out of your evenings, with a mentor who still treats patients every week.

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Michael Renfer in sailing gear at the wheel of a sailboat, looking ahead
Michael Renfer, chiropractor, mentor and sailor

The clinical work usually isn't what wears you down. Running the practice is.

You've probably tried the self-care version already: the apps, the tips, the retreat. Each helped for about a week. You're not broken. You're out of rhythm.

What wears you down is the admin in your evenings, being the backup for everyone, the day off that costs you money. Become the Captain works on the structure of your week, not on how you feel about it. I built it after burning out in my own practice in late 2016, rebuilding it step by step. I still see patients every week.

Why the name Rejuvenal?

Rejuvenal blends my surname, Renfer, with Juvenal, the Roman poet who wrote of mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a sound body, and a courageous heart. It also echoes "rejuvenate".

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem,
qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat
naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,
nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores
Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores
et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave heart that does not fear death, that counts the last stretch of life among nature's gifts, that can bear any hardship, that knows no anger, desires nothing, and holds the trials and hard labours of Hercules better than the loves, feasts and feather cushions of Sardanapalus.

Juvenal, Satires X, 356–362

Rejuvenal is for self-employed health professionals who give everything to others. It's a place to set your own course again, and to care for yourself with the same attention you give everyone else.

A practitioner at her desk late in the evening, head in her hand, surrounded by stacks of paperwork
Adrift. Evenings swallowed by admin.
The same practitioner walking along a lakeside path at sunset, relaxed and smiling
On course. Evenings that belong to you again.

01 · The method

Become the Captain

Pain and pressure will steer you if you let them. Becoming the captain means congruence: what you do each day matches what you truly want. The name comes from W. E. Henley's line "I am the captain of my soul."

Clarity, congruence, consistency: the three things I find missing in almost every burnout, including my own.

The same practitioner at a tidy desk in warm morning light, calmly planning her week in a notebook

  1. Get clear · Clarity

    Know what you want, and why

    Your next ten years in numbers: income, weeks off, and the kind of work you want to keep. A destination worth steering toward.

  2. See honestly · Congruence

    See where you are now

    A short practitioner self-check across work, home and relationships, so you know where the pressure really comes from. No judgment, just a clear position on the chart.

  3. Steer · Consistency

    Small, consistent, congruent actions

    A caseload ceiling, a fixed admin block, next year's time off booked first, and a stop-doing list. Structure that keeps each week pointed where you want to go.

02 · Daily habits

The six CAREEN Habits

Even the best ships have to come ashore. Sailors once careened their vessels: they hauled them onto the beach, tilted them on their side, and cleaned and repaired the hull so they could sail again. If you spend your days caring for others, you need the same ritual. These six habits are how you clean the hull before the damage slows you down.

A two-masted sailing boat hauled onto a beach and tilted on its side while six people scrape and repaint the hull

  1. Connect

    Nurture the relationships that refill you, not only the ones that need you.

    Try today Send one message to someone who matters, just to say hello.

  2. Act

    Take one small, deliberate step toward what you truly want.

    Try today Walk ten minutes after your last client. Not for exercise, for rhythm.

  3. Rest

    Recovery is part of the voyage, not a break from it.

    Try today Put next year's holidays in the calendar before anything else.

  4. Enjoy

    Make room for joy, not only for duty.

    Try today Do one thing today purely because you love it.

  5. Express

    Journal or create, so you can hear your own voice again.

    Try today On Sunday, write three lines: what gave me energy, what drained it, and the one thing that will define this week.

  6. Nourish

    Feed body and mind with the same care you give others.

    Try today Take one meal or moment slowly and with full attention.

03 · Where Rejuvenal begins

Turn the Rudder: the first Rejuvenal circle

Group mentoring

The practitioner circle

Guided sessions with a small group of independent practitioners who understand your work from the inside. Together you work through Become the Captain and build the CAREEN Habits into ordinary weeks.

Group
6–8 practitioners
Rhythm
Online, every two weeks
Length
3 months
One-to-one
Optional sessions with Michael

Planned. The details will be shaped by waitlist answers.

The first circle is a founding group, kept small so everyone gets real attention. Waitlist members hear first and help shape it.

Michael Renfer in sailing gear, steering a sailboat at the wheel
Optional 1:1

Personal mentoring

For members who want more: private sessions with Michael to go deeper on your own practice, your team and the decisions in front of you.

The first circle is being shaped now, and your answers on the waitlist will decide the format, timing and price. Rejuvenal is mentoring for working professionals who want to change course. It is not a substitute for medical or psychological care.

Portrait of Michael Renfer in a dark jacket and white shirt

04 · Michael Renfer, chiropractor and mentor

I've been on that couch.

I grew up on an organic farm in Switzerland, trained at Palmer College of Chiropractic in the US, and learned my craft in outreach clinics in Peru, where on some days I cared for 180 people. Back home I built a practice and taught younger chiropractors.

In late 2016, running my own practice, I burned out. I turned around halfway up a hill on a bike ride, knowing that pushing through could do real harm. I cancelled a congress trip. Concentration went, paperwork piled up, and simple things felt impossible to start.

"I am here. I am breathing. I am alive. For now, that is enough."

That moment taught me that rest isn't something you earn by being productive. It's what makes action possible. I also learned that work wasn't the whole story; the pressure came from several parts of my life at once.

It started with a breath. Then a little rest. Then one piece of paper. Then one boundary. Then I booked my holidays first, and kept one day a month just for me.

Since then I've rebuilt my working life, taken my first three-week holiday, paid off my practice debt, and mentored more than ten assistants, at least four of whom now run their own practices. I still see patients every week. I'm a sailor, so captains, rudders and careening are not only metaphors for me. Once, seasick on a small boat, I only recovered when I stopped fighting the waves. Peace isn't stillness; it's moving in time.

  • Dr. Michael Renfer, DC (USA), Fachchiropraktor
  • 20+ years in practice
  • 10,000+ patients, 3 continents
  • 10+ practitioners mentored
  • Author, The Client Cycle
  • Sailor

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"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." W. E. Henley

05 · Waitlist

Be the first to hear when Rejuvenal opens

Join the waitlist to hear first when Rejuvenal and its first circle open. Then answer five short questions so I can shape it around what you need. As a thank-you, you get the CAREEN Habits one-pager free.

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