Cancer Truth Note: #203
Downtime is less enjoyable when it feels like it is forced on us.
Can you relate? I require a minimum of one day of downtime a week, guilt free. However, when I was forced into weeks of downtime I felt like there were a million other things that needed my attention. It definitely was not guilt free.
During that time I started working with a new coaching app designed to shift your awareness of things like guilt about being forced into rest and finding the gifts and opportunities in the challenge. It is definitely a challenge to find the gifts in the challenges when you are in the challenges.
Have you experienced something similar? Are you finding the opportunities in the challenges?
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