Alison Conigliaro-Hubbard

...I’ve watched this pattern play out across my decades in the corporate world. High performers who gave everything to their careers and arrived at a health crisis that no one, including them, saw coming. And the signals were there. They were always there. But nobody stopped long enough to really listen to them. Or they heard them and overrode them anyway, because the push was louder.

...The brain operates in two primary modes. The first is a focused, task-oriented mode, active when you’re in a meeting, solving a problem, writing, deciding, producing. This is the mode most high performers live in almost exclusively. After all, those are the visible outputs that get measured as leaders. The second is what neuroscientists call the default mode network, a brain state that activates during rest, open attention, and unstructured time...

And to myself, I wondered: was the stress of not knowing holding something in my body that movement alone couldn’t release?