017 | Women Fantasise About Being Sick: What It Signals About Modern Work
There is a thought that many high-performing women have quietly entertained, and almost never say out loud. Sometimes I wish I could just get sick for a week. Not seriously. Just enough to stop. Just enough that the world would stop asking things of them without needing an explanation.
In this episode, Dr Kristy Goodwin unpacks why this fantasy is more widespread than we admit, what it is actually signalling, and why it is not a resilience problem. It is a design problem.
Drawing on research into anticipatory labour, cortisol recovery patterns, and the neuroscience of mirror neurons, Kristy…
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