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Burnout Isn’t Laziness: It Might Be Trauma
You cannot slow down even when your body is begging you to. Rest feels uncomfortable, almost dangerous, like something bad will happen the moment you stop. That is not a productivity problem. It is a survival pattern — often inherited from generations before you who learned that stopping was not safe, that worth had to be earned through output, that slowing down meant falling behind in ways that could not be recovered from. Willie Handler, author of Out of the Shadows, works specifically with how generational trauma shows up in daily life — in your work habits, your anxiety, your inability to…
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