Many of us were raised to believe that rest had to be earned. You worked first, rested later. That mindset helped build resilience, but it also taught me to ignore my body and postpone care. I started working at thirteen. By twenty, I was experiencing what we now call workplace burnout. I kept pushing through exhaustion, unaware that God was leading me into a season of rest. A season where I couldn’t work — and for someone like me, without a job to throw myself into, that felt deeply uncomfortable....
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