
The Insidious Cost of Burnout: Learning to Value Rest
I used to treat rest like dessert.Not the kind you melt into with joy — but the conditional kind. A bribe. A distant reward. “You can have it when you finish everything on your plate.”Except my plate was never empty.As a student, small business owner, and freelance writer juggling deadlines and dreams, I thought I could earn rest by being useful enough. Productive enough. Efficient enough. Rest became a dangling carrot I never caught. Because when your worth is tied to your output, there’s alway...