Your Hustle is Killing Your Magic (And Other Uncomfortable Truths)

Let’s play a game. 🤔 How many of these sound familiar?

• You rage-quit a "passion project" because it started feeling like unpaid overtime.

• You’ve cried over IKEA furniture (or a closet knob that would not cooperate).

• Your "self-care" is just another item on your to-do list, sandwiched between "laundry" and "existential dread."

If you nodded along, Episode 4 of Interested in Chaos? is your audio therapy session. Jill and Fran go full rebel mode against productivity culture, covering:

✔ The Journaling Trap (when your YouTube series becomes soul-sucking homework)

✔ Cabinet Knob Gate 2025 (a DIY meltdown for the history books)

✔ Why forced stillness heals more than 25 years of meditation (thanks, Monroe Institute)

👉 [Listen now] and remember: You’re allowed to quit your own bullshit.

What if the things we’re "supposed" to do—the journals we force ourselves to fill, the projects we grind through—aren’t just tasks, but mirrors?

This episode left me thinking:

✍️We confuse "commitment" with captivity.

That journaling habit you abandoned? It wasn’t a failure—it was a lesson. When something stops serving you, walking away isn’t quitting; it’s making space for what actually fits.

🪷Stillness isn’t lazy. It’s strategic.

Fran’s retreat at the Monroe Institute proved something radical: Forced pauses aren’t indulgent—they’re repair work. You can’t heal while sprinting.

🪄The magic is in the mess.

That closet knob Jill wrestled with? A perfect metaphor. Sometimes growth looks less like "progress" and more like breaking something old to make room for new.

Your turn: What’s one thing you’ve been forcing that might need a pause—or a full-stop quit?