Cass

For a lot of us, midlife can be a time of busyness.

It's often a time of peak responsibility.

You might be at the height of your career.

Many of us are raising children.

We might also be supporting aging parents.

A lot of us are navigating changes in our identity around this midlife phase.

We're also dealing with changes in our health, fluctuating or declining hormones, changes in energy.

It's just a full season of life.

And from the outside, it can look like we're coping beautifully.

Everyone else's needs get met.

Things get ticked off our to-do list.

Often we become the ones who make it all work.

But capability can quietly morph into constant doing instead of being.

My husband likes to joke, he sometimes says I go into like a tickety-tick mode, where I'm constantly like ticking things off my to-do list.

And I have those tendencies in my personality.

As you might have heard me say before, I call myself a recovering perfectionist.

So

If I'm not intentional about taking time out, often I can get really caught up in that schedule of busyness.

And I think, unfortunately, it's become socially acceptable.

You know, you can seem to produce a lot of output and people think, wow, that's great.