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How to Get Your Energy Back
Getting your energy back is a different project from simply being less tired. Being tired is the state you are in. Getting your energy back is a recovery arc, and it has a shape: slower than you want, not a straight line, with plateaus and small setbacks built into...
Burnout That Rest Does Not Fix: What It Actually Is and What It Is Not
You took the holiday. You protected the weekend. You deleted the apps from your phone. You did everything the articles told you to do. And on Monday morning the exhaustion was still there, waiting. There is a reason for that. It is not that you rested wrong. It is...
Is Anxiety Really Your Superpower?
"My anxiety is my superpower." I read that in a comment thread under a post about high-functioning anxiety. The post had hundreds of comments. Most of them agreed. I understand the appeal completely. And I want to make an argument that does not take anything away from...
Fear Makes You Old
and the Research Now Shows Exactly How Put two forty-two-year-olds in front of me. One is tired. Genuinely tired — long hours, small children, not enough sleep. The other has been afraid for six years. I can tell them apart across a room and it has nothing to do with...
Am I About to Get Fired or Just Anxious?
What Job Insecurity Does to Your Body You have read the same email four times. There was a meeting you were not in. Your manager has been slightly harder to reach. The industry news is not good. And you cannot tell whether you are reading real signals or manufacturing...
Is Your Burnout Actually Fear
What the Science and Chinese Medicine Both Found You rested. You came back tired. That sentence brings more people into my practice than any other. They have taken the holiday. They have protected the weekend. They have done everything the articles told them to do and...
How Do I Loosen Tight Hamstrings for Good?
Most people trying to fix their hamstrings are doing the right things in the wrong order. That is the whole problem. Not effort, not discipline, not the exercises themselves. Order. If you have already read why your hamstrings are so tight, you know the tissue is...