rest = laziness

Anyone who knows me knows the work ethic is strong with this one (in that Yoda voice) . When I love what I am doing 16 hr days have breezed by . But what happens if you are like me, and when you finally sit down, instead of relaxing, your brain says: “What should you be doing better right now?”

I have worked long enough in mental health to know that this sounds eerily familiar for many Latinas out there . If you were raised in environments where rest wasn’t modeled—it was earned , yet even then, it was accompanied with apologies , justification and a side of guilt. Description was too real ? Then therapy may be for you . Let’s explore where these ideas came from and the lies that perpetuate a frenzied pace in your life. What if we re-phrased this idea of rest being seen not as a product of vagancia , oooh  it hurts a lil even to type that word , but to approach rest as repair?