Are you over-ing, especially in your career arena?
Are you someone who over-does, over-commits, over-functions?
Are you ready to stop romanticizing work as your main identity?
Over-ing has REAL health consequences and keeps you out of living your true ambition of impact and goodness in the world. This is one of the messages of don’t be 2016 me.

Neuroscience shows that we as humans can adapt to stress (physical and mental) and grow from that stress, but only when paired with real restorative rest - which is the opposite for many folks on this side of the pandemic or even for work hustle culture generally. I see rest as a critical element of living intentionally and mindfully.

I’ve found the Rescuer role is the predominant one folks I work with play - in large part because they are servant leaders/educators and change agents so their energy and efforts are outward seeking naturally. The line between serving and rescuing can be blurry. Rescuers lose their own empowerment and sense of choice in relationships as they slide into over-functioning and over-working.

Pleasure is doing what feels good and feels like self and collective love. It is not about harm and excess and numbing. It’s about accepting ourselves AS Nature with a connection TO Nature. So when I want to hug a tree, I do.