Marie Forleo

And there was never a problem with it. It certainly wasn't a burden because I love my work. And it showed up a few times in my relationship with Josh, my partner. We've been together 20 years where he's like... hey, working a lot. And I'm like, yeah, this is what it takes, dude. Like this is what it's about. And so we've definitely had sparring issues over time.

And I had always taken really good care of my health and as conscious as I can be as a dancer and as a fitness person, movement is part of my life, but things just started to fall apart. And I remember getting all of my blood work done and a doctor said to me after she reviewed my blood work, she's like, Marie, it is a miracle you're able to get up every day. Like your adrenals are shot.

And I think I dialed it down a little bit because the truth is my relationship needed more space and needed more attention and if it was going to thrive. But in 2020, I started having all of these weird and unusual pains in my body, which I had never had before. And I had always taken really good care of my health and

Then we discovered all of these tumors inside of me, including one, the size of a grapefruit growing outside of my uterus, pushing all of the other organs out of place. And it turns out I had to have an urgent hysterectomy to make the pain stop. And so after that surgery, the recovery is like, you can't really do much for like six to eight weeks. It's just like your body needs to heal.

as conscious as I can be as a dancer and as a fitness person, you know, movement is part of my life, but things just started to fall apart. And I remember getting all of my blood work done and a doctor said to me after she reviewed my blood work, she's like, Marie, it is a miracle you're able to get up every day. Like your adrenals are shot.

Then we discovered all of these tumors inside of me, including one the size of a grapefruit growing outside of my uterus, pushing all of the other organs out of place. And it turns out I had to have an urgent hysterectomy to make the pain stop. And so after that surgery, the recovery is like, you can't really do much for like six to eight weeks. It's just like your body needs to heal.

It's a major surgery. You cannot work out. You can walk and you walk gently, but you just have to really chill. And I'm not kidding you. I have never taken six weeks off in my life. I started babysitting when I was nine. And I was like, even just the prospect, I remember even when I heard like, no, no, no, you're not going to be able to do anything for six weeks.

I was like, it was like such a record scratch moment. But what was so cool about that was in the stillness and in the requirement to just be, I was able to see how much my patterning of drivenness had exceeded what was necessary. And it was though this drive was driving me rather than me being in control. And there was just layers of it that I was like, This is not even productive.

It's a major surgery. You cannot work out. You can walk and you walk gently, but you just have to really chill. And I'm not kidding you. I have never taken six weeks off in my life. I started babysitting when I was nine. And I was like, even just the prospect, I remember even when I heard like, no, no, no, you're not going to be able to do anything for six weeks.

It was like such a record scratch moment. But what was so cool about that was in the stillness and in the requirement to just be, I was able to see how much my patterning of drivenness had exceeded what was necessary. And it was as though this drive was driving me rather than me being in control. And there was just layers of it that I was like, This is not even productive.

And I am like really about efficiency and productivity. And I'm like overdoing it in certain areas. And it's causing my body to break down, which is like my sacred vessel in this lifetime. Like this is nuts, Marie. You know, you can't see things or learn the lessons until they're ready for you.

But there was something in that stillness that gave me a perspective that quite frankly, I just didn't have before because I was so, it was such a habit to go so fast and so hard that I didn't know there was even another option.

And I am like really about efficiency and productivity. And I'm like overdoing it in certain areas. And it's causing my body to break down, which is like my sacred vessel in this lifetime. Like this is nuts, Marie. You know, you can't see things or learn the lessons until they're ready for you.

But there was something in that stillness that gave me a perspective that quite frankly, I just didn't have before because I was so, it was such a habit to go so fast and so hard that I didn't know there was even another option.

You got to come take it. You'll love it.

In my six weeks. And so like I had, I've always been obsessed with productivity because again, I love what I do. And I'm always like, well, how do we maximize our time on earth? Like how do you get the most out of being here? The things that you want to create, the impact you want to make, the different adventures that you want to have.

You got to come take it. You'll love it.

So it's always been a place of interest for me, a place of study. And I love studying neuroscience and I love studying efficiency and effectiveness and all those beautiful things.

In my six weeks and so like I had, I've always been obsessed with productivity because again, I love what I do. And I'm always like, well, how do we maximize our time on earth? Like, how do you get the most out of being here? The things that you want to create, the impact you want to make, the different adventures that you want to have.

And when I really started to understand that I was so addicted to like overwhelm and had put myself in a place of burnout, I started to recognize that I was like, wait a minute, this is like two different worlds, two different paradigms where we're so

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