Danielle McGeough
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2,182 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Danielle McGeough’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And because our output oftentimes defines our values, rest becomes something that we earn, not something that you need.
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It's not treated as an essential, it's treated as extra.
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And I think that this is the case for all genders and sexes, but for people who have been socialized as women, and particularly many of the women that I work with that are in male-dominated fields or historically male-dominated.
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dominated fields.
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This myth is so dangerous.
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This myth that rest is something that you earn because
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When we slow down, we oftentimes equate that as I'm falling behind.
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And so there's all this pressure to do more, be more, never slow down.
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And
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We have been conditioned since childhood to equate stillness with laziness and self-care with selfishness.
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And so really teaching ourselves that rest is an essential, that it's not something that's optional, and that actually by resting, that's not what's going to make us fall behind, but it's what's going to give us the clarity.
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And the energy and the ability to sustainably keep going and do the amazing things that we want to do in our lives.
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So the third mess is that rest isn't productive.
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And because of that, it's not worth doing.
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So there is this sense that the things that are worthwhile, things that are not quote unquote a waste are things that are productive.
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And one of the things that I learned kind of early on when I was dealing with anxiety is that action is the antidote to anxiety.
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And I think that there's some truth to this and depending on how you respond to anxiety.
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So I think that either people are overfunctioners or they're freezers.
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That flight, fright, freeze, or fawn, right?
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That if you are somebody who fights in reaction to stress, you might be an overfunctioner.
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