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Why You Stay Busy So There's No Time to Feel Anything
The calendar is full on purpose. Not because there's that much to do, but because a full calendar doesn't leave room to feel what you don't want to.
The calendar is full on purpose. Not because there's that much to do, but because a full calendar doesn't leave room to feel anything you don't want to.
Busyness like that isn't productivity, it's a strategy, and a fairly effective one, right up until the feelings you've been outrunning catch up somewhere you didn't plan for.
Usually it's protecting against something specific, grief, disappointment, anger that doesn't feel safe to have, and staying in motion is easier than sitting still with it.
Slowing down feels like the opposite of solving it. It's actually the only way to find out what's been waiting under all that motion.
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