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“How we spend out non-working hours determines very largely how capably or incapably we spend our working hours.”
― Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

“Your pain may never be adequately acknowledged by those who injured you. Profound feelings of grief might strike you as you work through unresolved feelings of resentment or disappointment.”
― Arielle Schwartz, A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD: Compassionate Strategies to Begin Healing from Childhood Trauma

“Grounding refers to using your ability to sense your body and feel your feet on the earth in order to calm your nervous system. Grounding is a key resource for trauma and emotional overwhelm. Your senses (hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching) are the only necessary tools for anchoring yourself in the present moment. One simple practice involves naming five things you see, four things you hear, three things you can touch, two things you can smell, and taking one deep slow breath.”
― Arielle Schwartz, The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole

“My goal is to offer a more humane and sustainable way to integrate professional efforts into a life well-lived. To embrace slow productivity, in other words, is to reorient your work to be a source of meaning instead of overwhelm, while still maintaining the ability to produce valuable output.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout