Lessons from flu season

Mainly relearning how to rest without guilt

I had a run-of-the-mill cold a few weeks ago which took about a week / 10-ish days to get over. That's fairly normal and it wasn't *that* bad a cold - but I FELT AWFUL all the way through it. And not just physically awful, but full of guilty, shameful feelings that I wasn't able to 'perform' at my usual levels.

I didn't really realise or articulate any …