Aug 3, 2026 · 17 min · 10 segments
Solo Episode! Please review and share. If unexpected downtime makes you feel anxious, restless or just plain uncomfortable - you're not alone. We're talking about how chronic overwork and busyness…
Rashmi SchrammHost
We're talking about something that comes up in coaching conversations quite a bit and even in regular conversations.
And that's this idea of the discomfort, guilt, use whatever word you want to, restlessness that we might feel with free time, unstructured time.
And if that is you, right, think about if this happened to you, right? If there was...
And instead of like going into that dream scenario of you felt so relaxed, use all the words that you want to for that.
Maybe sometimes people describe it also as a panic, like, oh my God, I have all this free space.
What am I supposed to do with it? And it can feel really, really uncomfortable.
So if this has ever happened to you or it happens to you now, This is the episode for you.
This is what we're talking about is when unstructured time starts to make us restless, let's dive into it and then let's figure out how we wanna be with it, right? That's the entirety of this is how do we shift our relationship to it? And so this sensation of it feeling disorienting or uncomfortable, free time feeling disorienting or uncomfortable, is the thing that I think is a delicious place for us to look at.
We're talking about something that comes up in coaching conversations quite a bit and even in regular conversations.
And that's this idea of the discomfort, guilt, use whatever word you want to, restlessness that we might feel with free time, unstructured time.
And if that is you, right, think about if this happened to you, right? If there was...
And instead of like going into that dream scenario of you felt so relaxed, use all the words that you want to for that.
Maybe sometimes people describe it also as a panic, like, oh my God, I have all this free space.
What am I supposed to do with it? And it can feel really, really uncomfortable.
So if this has ever happened to you or it happens to you now, This is the episode for you.
This is what we're talking about is when unstructured time starts to make us restless, let's dive into it and then let's figure out how we wanna be with it, right? That's the entirety of this is how do we shift our relationship to it? And so this sensation of it feeling disorienting or uncomfortable, free time feeling disorienting or uncomfortable, is the thing that I think is a delicious place for us to look at.
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