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Jul 14, 2023Liked by Sara Petersen

Love this beautiful piece of writing so much. Cheers to Minimal Effort!

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The trying is so goddamn exhausting, isn’t it. I’m calling this my summer of NOT trying.

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Jul 14, 2023Liked by Sara Petersen

Thank you for writing this. Reading it, I felt my stomach unknot itself a bit. Think I’ll spent today setting down the trying as much as I can.

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Beautiful. This resonates with me on so many levels. The fixing, the trying... whew.

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I think a lot about how earning a living as a creator in this timeline is not set up for pauses or breaks. Then again, neither is our entire work culture, which is not at all set up for parents or people with illnesses (chronic or temporary) or disabilities.

There are great things about this sort of work--access to readers and clients and collaborators on an individual scale that simply wasn't possible pre-internet. But the downsides include feeling chained to social media and promotion and hustling and getting word counts or sales or hours in. The instinct then becomes to go-go-go, try-try-try, churn-churn-churn, lest we miss out or lose momentum.

It's too easy to forget that everything and everyone needs fallow time; our bodies are literally built to heal as we sleep and we can't exist without that. And it's easy to tip into burnout if we heed the implications that rest = quickly sinking into a quicksand of irrelevance.

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All i could think, as I read, was YES! Stop pushing that rock up the hill, eh? We ALL need to rest. Thank you for saying it so well.

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I adore you and your writing so fucking much.

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Love this so much Sara

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Thank you for your rawness and vulnerability. And the laughs. (The wrapped pad in Disney world really got me 😂😂😂)

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This was so beautiful. Thank you!

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