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Tending to Yourself When There’s No Time [blogs.psychcentral.com]

 

You yearn to be productive, to blast through your to-do list every single day. You experiment with all sorts of hacks to attain the ultimate efficiency. If you have kids, you take advantage of their nap time, folding, preparing, putting things back, emailing, writing, working, running. There’s so much running.

No wonder you often end your day feeling out of breath (and out of it).

You yearn to have a tidy house, where every item has a home, and there aren’t piles of unpaid bills on the counter. A pile you’ve been avoiding for a while. All the laundry gets put away, and doesn’t resemble the leaning tower of Pisa on your dryer.

You yearn to be able to subsist on little sleep and a few fancy cups of Starbucks coffee.

You hope not to get sick because you don’t have time for that. So when you feel the soreness in your throat, you ignore it. You continue with your day, blasting through that list, and wake up feeling like there are weights attached to your entire body, sinking you further and further to the floor, further and further through the floor.

[For more on this story by Margarita Tartakovsky, MS  go to https://blogs.psychcentral.com...when-theres-no-time/]

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