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Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress and this is a gross spurt, a bite-sized way you can increase your progress today.

I can harp all the live-long day about how households need to better share in the invisible labor required to keep families running, the kind of labor that

women largely carry. I've coached several women throughout the years on this very topic,

and I can tell you that it is possible to share in the mental and physical loads that you take on

from keeping the toilet paper stocked to signing up kids for spring

sports. It largely comes down to two big things to make this happen. One, communication, two,

acceptance. I'm not going to touch on the first today, communication, as that merits a whole Monday

episode at very least, but don't

worry, it is in the works. I do want to spend this gross sport talking about the second,

acceptance, and it may not be the type of acceptance you are expecting. In December, I was feeling quite run down. Between all the invisible labor

that celebrating Christmas entails to trying to balance family and squeeze in my work to the

very cracks of my day, I had been going on for months of not being able to practice what I

preach very well. I wasn't

really on my own list, at least not in the ways that moved past the most basic forms of

self-care from ensuring I was trying to sleep and to move my body. But even with those baselines in

place, I'm pretty sure you could hear the raggedness in my voice. I just felt so run down and

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