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What if your relationship with work is unhealthy? Explore how American work culture normalizes burnout, self-sacrifice, and overwork—and what a healthier relationship with work could look like.

What happens when you hit the wall and realize you just can’t keep going anymore? We live in a culture that treats constant productivity as normal and rest as something we have to earn. But nothing in nature blooms year-round—and neither do we. If you’re burned out, overwhelmed, or nearing your limit, recovery starts with something we rarely learn how to do: stop, listen to what you actually need, and take yourself seriously.

Lately a theme has been coming up in the conversations I’m having with clients and peers. Should life be fun? What role does fun have in how I create my life? My career? For many of us—especially those of us who adopted the “good girl” persona in childhood—fun is a secondary priority, if it even ranks at all. As an eldest daughter with cPTSD and an atrophied ability to connect to and make sense of my own emotions, needs, and desires, fun was something I drifted far, far away from as a...