For me it started with the "honors track." The pressure to succeed never came from my parents - in fact, every time I was offered the option of testing for GATE, signing up for my first set of honors classes, or trying out for the varsity sport, my mom called around to check if it was even the right thing to do. She didn't want me to lose my childhood. She just wanted me to be a happy kid.
Can you have PTSD from work?
How to create more time
Yes, I am one of those people who sees the word "break" and immediately thinks: just how much can I squeeze in? And I'm working on it. Despite constantly reminding my yoga students that the end of the year is a time to slow down, take a step back and reflect the before the new year - like that brief but oh-so-rich pause between inhale and exhale - with my precious time off between quarters in grad school I wanted to fit in everything I possibly could before I lost all those extra hours in the week again.