Why You Feel Guilty Every Time You Rest

The Lulu Essey Podcast · Aug 13, 2026 · 16m

Do you feel guilty every time you rest? Like rest has to be earned, and you have not earned it yet and you definitely don't deserve it? I know that voice well. It showed up this summer, big time, when I took my first break in 88 episodes.

Welcome to Season Two, Beauties. I am opening this season with the truth about that break. For weeks before it, a voice in my head listed all the reasons I hadn't earned the right to rest. I didn't fight that voice. I didn't obey it either. I sat down with it.

In a workshop with Elizabeth Gilbert, I heard her describe fear as a passenger that rides sidecar…