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She also addressed the particular pressure faced by people whose work is tied to service or advocacy. When the cause feels bigger than you, it becomes easy to justify self-neglect. You tell yourself there will be time later. You tell yourself other people have it worse. You tell yourself stopping would be selfish.
Her experience exposed the lie in that thinking. Burned-out people don’t help causes. They become liabilities to themselves and, eventually, to the work they care about. Sustainable impact requires sustainable lives.
In a public landscape dominated by extremes, her message landed precisely because it wasn’t extreme at all. It was grounded, practical, and deeply human. Most people won’t receive a dramatic diagnosis. Most won’t have a single moment that changes everything. What they will have are years of quiet warnings they can choose to heed or ignore.
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