When we don’t take our own rest while holding space for others around us to rest, we are functioning like the systems we want to gain freedom from. I battle and navigate this daily as I engage with corporations, institutions, and individuals constantly ignoring my workflow boundaries, requesting work from me even while on an announced sabbatical, and requesting my labor for free. I am amazed at how many well-meaning people interested in this work aggressively push and micromanage our interactions. Because grind culture is a curriculum that has been forced on us and reinforced through corporate
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