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BLOG POST Burnout and Coming Back Sober and Thriving Moving Through Monotropism
What if rest were part of the work, the way an eyelid is part of an eye? Drawing on Tagore, the Japanese concept of Ma, Tricia Hersey and the image of a fallow field, this post explores Autistic burnout, monotropic rest and fallowing as a freedom practice.
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