About this episode

This episode discusses healing your relationship with productivity through rest, creativity, and non-linear growth.

If rest makes you feel guilty, it’s not a discipline problem. It’s a conditioning problem. Many of us were taught that productivity equals worth, and that slowing down means falling behind. But hustle guilt doesn’t create sustainable success. It creates anxiety, burnout, and a constant sense that you’re never doing enough. In this episode, we’re talking about healing your relationship with productivity through rest, creativity, and non-linear growth. You’ll learn why the the things that we ...

People in this episode

Host: Sarah St Pierre

Topics covered

• productivity
• rest
• creativity
• non-linear growth
• hustle guilt
• burnout

Keywords

• productivity
• rest
• hustle guilt
• anxiety
• burnout
• sustainable success
• conditioning

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