This week the World Music Therapy Congress was held in Bologna. A lot of colleagues I know flew from all over the world to attend. That would have been me too. Last year I set the goal to travel around Europe after the conference — use the trip to test whether moving to …
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The career data nobody tells you to collect. The data that was sitting in my own office, the whole time. I was sitting in our accounting department, watching my manager accept an ad hoc task from the CFO. Overtime. Third time that week. And she was very pregnant. “I do not want her …
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Three weeks ago. Empty car park. Me on a scooter, my partner watching. We’d been at this for a while — straight lines, right turns, tighter turns, left turns for the first time. I didn’t fall. I was even starting to feel something close to confident. And yet I almost quit this week. …
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Burnout doesn’t always look like a crash. Sometimes it’s a quiet hum — Sunday-night dread, the 3pm slump. Here’s a 2-minute practice to name it before it runs your week.
Been consistent for years but not seeing real progress? The problem might not be discipline — it’s whether your habit is sized for your goal or your comfort.
Your phone trained your attention to live in tiny bursts. Here’s how analog activities — card-making, cooking, tidying — quietly rebuild it. No app required.
Saturday, 2pm. The kitchen smells like roasted beef and hearty vegetables. There’s also chicken in the oven, cilantro lime rice cooling on the bench, and 11 containers lined up waiting for all lunch and dinner for the week. Four hours from grocery list to the last washed pan. Every week. Without fail. I …
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High-functioning burnout doesn’t look like collapse. It looks like a productive Tuesday. Here’s how to spot the quiet signs — and one small thing to do today.
Staying isn’t neutral—it compounds. Every time you override your gut, you teach yourself clarity isn’t actionable. The real cost of staying too long—and when to move.
“What should I do with my life?” Wrong question. Better question: “What gives me energy?” I didn’t leave accounting because I found my passion. I left because I tracked my energy—what drained me vs. what sustained me. Five years later, I’m still doing music therapy. Not because I’m passionate every day. …
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