Why you feel guilty when you rest | The Death of the Savior

You sit down to rest, and it feels like you're letting someone down.

"Rest feels like negligence, like abandonment of my post, like evidence that I wasn't actually as committed as I claimed to be."

From my book The Death of the Savior.

I wrote that about myself, when I was working seventy to ninety hours a week. If your worth comes from what you give up for others, then sitting down feels like you're taking something from them.

Most people have a pattern like this running and don't know it's there. If you want to find yours, do the Atlas. It names the pattern running your life in a single sitting. It's free at codexofthearchitect.com