I am going to say something that may make some people uncomfortable: I believe we have been trained to eat for approval instead of energy. Approval from a scale. Approval from a culture obsessed with shrinking bodies. Approval from systems that profit when we feel broken. And when approval becomes…
The quiet way burnout actually begins Burnout rarely announces itself loudly at first. It shows up in small, almost dismissible ways — waking up tired even after a full night’s sleep, feeling unusually impatient, struggling to focus on things that used to feel easy. These are not dramatic failures. They…
