Ep 45: Productivity, Always Being Busy and Starting to Stop (part re-release)

Written By Catherine Counihan

Productivity is revered in our society and for many of us this constant drive to produce, to be busy, to be viewed as always efficient is wired into us as part of our safety strategies.

Even pondering not being busy can send us into a panic. And yet this pattern often leads to burnout.

In this episode Cath speaks to this pattern, how seductive it is as a coping strategy and how we can tend to ourselves as we get more awareness of our own process, and start to move away from always being busy.

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