How to Be a Calming Influence
And stop stressing out the people around you
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4 min readDec 17, 2021
“I’m terrified of taking time off! I’m scared I’ll lose my traction!”
A writer friend needed a break. She’d been hitting it hard. In our Slack group, the typical messages came flooding in: “Take care of yourself!” people said. “We all need to take time off from time to time!”
