Alexandra Niel discusses how women often use work and busyness to avoid processing the emotional pain of divorce. The speaker frames overworking as a common coping mechanism that actually interferes with managing other responsibilities and healing.
I listened to your story and I hear you say, I busied myself in work. And I think I, well, I did that. I didn't wanna think about it, even though I was the one who chose to leave. I didn't want to think about it. I didn't want to really deal with it at first. And I think that'll resonate with a lot of the women in the group because I think that's something that we do because we're like, uh, I don't wanna deal with this right now. I've got all of this stuff to deal with. Let me focus there. The thing is, if we don't deal with what's here, it's difficult to effectively manage all of the other things that we have there.
