I Struggled To Be Still And That’s Okay

Taking care of your mental health involves failing to do so too

Mariyam Haider

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Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

It was an early weekday morning in August, when I sent an email to my manager titled: Burnout/Leave. I remember waking up after having a work-related dream, and feeling overtly drained despite the 8-hour sleep. It seemed to me that my mind had forgotten to turn work-mode off, even when it

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