I was proud to never have any financial debt but it came at a high price

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When I worked on major projects where there’s a lot on the line, I’d disappear into them.

There were days where I’d forget to eat and weeks where I’d forgotten what the sun felt like on my skin because I was working so hard on a project that I never left my desk. Sometimes even bathroom breaks were forgotten. I convinced myself that this level of focus was required to achieve my goals.

During one of those stretches, my partner expressed his concerns and begged me to go to therapy to talk about my intense working habits that kept me in a perpetual state of burnout.

It was a sobering moment. At first, I was in denial. I thought he was being dramatic. Surely this level of concern wasn’t warranted. I was simply going through a rough patch at work just like everyone else does someti