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Charlotte's avatar

I love you, I love this ❤️

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Dhivya, this was such a needed deep breath—thank you for writing it. I love how you offer rest not as some grand event but as these small, doable resets. It really resonated, especially that line about burnout creeping in through procrastination and brain fog—been there, lived it, wore the under-eye bags.

My own take on burnout came out a bit spikier—it’s a satirical CV for the “polished but permanently knackered” professional, poking fun at the glossy LinkedIn version of ourselves that keeps showing up even when we’re running on fumes. While yours soothes and grounds, mine throws side-eye at the whole system that got us here. Both trying to say: this isn’t normal, and we deserve better.

https://open.substack.com/pub/noisyghost/p/professional-polished-permanently?r=5fir91&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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