The year after I had pericarditis, I contracted strep throat. The year after that, shingles. All stress related, the results of an increasingly maniacal schedule that had me bouncing between press interviews, speaking engagements, and endless meetings with animators, marketers, licensors, architects, and designers. My days were now scheduled down to fifteen-minute increments. Even the tasks I should have enjoyed—the creative writing projects or strategy sessions—were no longer fun. Big Idea was now creating toys, books, greeting cards—you name it. Exactly what I had wanted. But my time was so
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Burnout and spiritual anemia
