Some weeks hit differently. The calls aren’t necessarily longer or more frequent, but they take more out of you. You may finish a shift feeling unusually drained, irritable, or like you simply don’t have much left to give.
That difference has a name: emotional labor, and it’s real work, even when it doesn’t show up on a schedule.
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It’s easy for reading to become another task: research, scripts, messages, or something you’re doing because you need information. Reading for no reason at all is a different thing entirely, and it’s one of the simplest forms of self-care available.
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Pride Month may be coming to a close, but being proud of who you are isn’t something that belongs to a single month on the calendar.
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The summer bucket list has a reputation problem. It has become, for a lot of people, a performance document: a list of things that would look good in a caption, or that seem like the kind of things you should want to do in summer, rather than the things you actually want to do.
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Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most of us absorbed the idea that enjoyment needs to be justified.
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