Let’s dismantle a lie.
“Lazy” is not the word for women who are exhausted, disillusioned, and done carrying systems that don’t serve them.
What looks like procrastination is often protection. What feels like giving up is often a refusal to self-abandon … again.
Ask me how I know…
You’re not lazy. You’re just done lying to yourself
After years of overextending, people-pleasing, and proving yourself ten times as much as others … only to be seen half as clearly …
Your body and soul are waving the proverbial white flag. It’s not a failure. It’s a signal.
A signal to:
- Stop making exhaustion the metric for excellence
- Release loyalty to environments that reward burnout
- Reclaim joy, rest, and clarity as core leadership tools
When exhaustion is named “ambition”, you forget how to rest…
You don’t need another productivity hack. You need permission to be human.
Joy (and yes, the names have been changed to protect the melanated) came to me with a problem we know all to well. She said, “I just can’t keep going like this …”
Does her pain sound familiar?
She was overcommitted to systems that praised her output but ignored her humanity.
So, together we reframed her leadership lens from overdrive to overflow. She now works three (3) days a week, leads strategic initiatives with clarity, and finally sees rest as a requirement ….
… not as a reward.
When you call rest revolutionary, you remember that ease is not earned. It’s allowed.
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