Tag: burnout
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How Do You Actually Rest?
No really, please let me know. Listen to your body. It’s something we hear all the time. Do we do it? Really listen? I really listened yesterday, and it was harder than you’d think. You see, I really wanted to run 14 miles with my running club this morning. The run was led by a…
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To Take Back A Life (Ode To Kate Baer)
Yesterday morning I woke up angry. I had the feeling I had lost the past several weeks of my life to work. It was like I blinked and weeks had passed, and work had been done – and wedding planning and some sleeping – and not much else. I happen to love my job. I…
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Quitting Syria
After Seven Years, My Job Is No Longer Syria Conflict-Related Arlington, MA-February 2023 On Tuesday, I left all my Syria WhatsApp groups and unsubscribed from Syria update emails and live trackers. Afterwards I felt a huge sense of relief. I have more to say about it – about what changed in my life these past…
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My Life Resume
(Nothing To Do With My Work Resume) A few years ago, I quit my job and intentionally took some time off work. I didn’t have a timeframe in mind for how long I would be unemployed, but it ended up being six months. So it was that in that spring and early summer of that…
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How to Set a Boundary Across Cultural Lines (Or Not)
Can I cut Alaa out of my life? Stop responding to his texts forever? “Yes!” say Brene Brown and Nora McInerny and Emily McDowell and so many others who have put their stories of loss and learning and boundaries out into the world (and Instagram). “Yes!” say Julia Cameron and Laura van Dernoot Lipsky –…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…