Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms

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I’m always multi-tasking, even though I know it’s not good for my mind, body, soul, productivity, or creativity. As a recovering doer and as a psychiatrist who has witnessed the grave consequences of a life dictated by masculine principles of achievement, I will go so far as to say this book is essential reading for any woman in the feminine reclamation process. Or… do you laugh out loud because it seems like an insane phrase that someone in a galaxy far, far away made up?

If you think you’re going to need help next week, ask now, not when you need the help because it’s very hard to help somebody who is in the middle of a crisis, needing help in that minute because there’s more drama. Marie: We both know the stats about this and most people feel it intuitively, they feel it in their hearts about loneliness is on the rise, people feel so socially isolated and this is a simple but unexpected way to combat some of that, to reach out. Marie: It’s a way to avoid a lot of things like intimacy, a lot of our emotions, connection, any challenges or problems that we might have that busyness can kind of cover up for.Each chapter gives the reader a small experiment to try and see what would happen if she did less in one specific way. She was talking about energy, how our energy patterns are cyclical, and therefore how it was impossible to be at full-throttle all the time. Someone else could probably do it and do it way better and I’m going to be more joyful, I’m going to be more loving, I’m going to be able to contribute better if I stay in my little zone of genius. In autumn I got serious panic attacks and aniexty as I have been over doing it I’ve had some time off from my one job as I do two and it was so nice to do things for my self. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect because as strange as it may sound, while parenting solo and working full time while also being a student to try to finish my undergraduate degree was a lot, and often incredibly stressful and lonely, I knew in my bones that there wasn’t enough of me to share with another and to have a healthy, meaningful relationship with both my daughter and a partner, no matter how much that person might have been able to lighten my load.

You know, I’m coming up on my own book and so that will be… Everything is Figureoutable will be coming out and I realize, I’m like, oh this is such a great growth opportunity for me because I’m so not used to asking people for anything and now I need to ask for help.No one is thinking that and here’s what I found, becoming a mom forced me to ask for help in ways I never would have before because the well being of my child depended on it and I recommend asking for help early, so asking before you think you’re going to need help. Marie: I think this is such an important conversation because what has… what I’ve observed that happens now and I’ve noticed it in myself and I try really hard to catch it before I go too far down the rabbit whole is, there is a trend or there’s something new that bubbles up or people are starting to use a new platform and then you have that little voice in your head that goes, I should be doing that too.