After a recent surgery forced me into stillness, I started noticing how hard it is for me to rest—really rest—without feeling guilty. I realized just how deeply I’ve tied my worth to my productivity. This post is about unlearning the old scripts, reckoning with what I inherited, and slowly learning a new way to be.
I don’t know how you do it!
Oh, why thank you for noticing all that I’m doing. It might just be the reason I’m trying to do. it. all.
Productivity = validation.
Yikes.
One day, they’re going to leave. Your kids and mine. They’ll go off to college, a shared apartment, a gap year backpacking in distant countries—whatever it is, one day they’re going to leave. We can’t afford to stay silent about their value and gamble on them figuring it out some other way. We can’t afford to withhold affection or kind words. We have to tell them and show them. TODAY.
