This post is a little different.
Most essays land and then life moves on. You read something that names a thing you’ve been feeling, you feel seen for a moment, and then the Slack message pulls you back in. The system that exploited you is counting on exactly that.
A practice bundle is a companion to an essay that makes that harder to do. A container designed to move something that reading alone doesn’t always move.
This one accompanies the essay, Rested Women Are harder to Exploit. If you haven’t read it yet, start there.
What’s included in the practice bundle:
🎧 Meditation (free for everyone): A guided visualization (on this page), 10 minutes. It takes the essay’s core argument and puts it somewhere your body can feel, because intellectual understanding of extraction and a nervous system that can finally detect it are two very different things. Return to it as many times as you need.
🔓 A Recovery Assessment (for paid subscribers found below): An interactive assessment that walks you through nine questions and generates a personalized recovery guide built based on your answers. This is where you stop nodding along and start asking harder questions. What have you actually been doing when you thought you were recovering? Who benefits from your particular variety of depletion? What would change if your nervous system had enough room to tell you what is actually true?
A rested person is a different negotiating partner. With her employer, her time, her attention, her money. This is the work that gets you closer to resisting the exploitation.
