How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

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This guide book is filled with practical advice to help you curb your obsessions and build boundaries between your work, your job, and your life.

In her workshops on healing and creative process, Marlee Grace helps people acknowledge their blocks and address them by setting distinct parameters that change their behavior. Now, she brings her methods and ideas to the wider world, offering all of us concrete ways to break free from our devices and focus on whats really importantour own aliveness.

Part workbook, part advice manual, part love letter, How to Not Always Be Working ventures into the space where phone meets life, helping readers to define their workwhat they do out of sense of purpose; their jobwhat they do to make money; and their breakswhat they do to recharge, and to feel connected to themselves and the people who matter to them. Grace addresses complex issues such as what to do if your work and your job are connected, provides insights to help you figure out how much is too much, and offers suggestions for making the best use of your time.

Essential for everyone who feels overwhelmed and anxious about our hyper-connected worldwhether youre a corporate lawyer, a student, a sales person, or a yoga instructorHow to Not Always Be Working includes practical suggestions and thoughtful musings that prompt you to honestly examine your behaviorhow you burn yourself out and why youre doing it. A creative manifesto for living better, it shows you how to carve sacred space in your life.

From business anecdotes about fulfilling orders to more personal stories about Graces recovery from divorce and addiction, this book is full of wisdom and resilience, with plenty of discussion about ritual and routine as ways to create effective and positive creative life change.

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MARLEE GRACE is a dancer and a writer who keeps the magic alive with her podcast and online project Have Company. Have Company is an evolving project that has been known as a shop, a gallery, a zine publisher, a podcast, a place for artists to grow their practice, and more. Marlee's personal work focuses on improvisation through movement and art making, as well as bringing together the voices of artists through her podcast and artist residency program. As the author and workshop facilitator of "How to Not Always Be Working," which she has taught to groups across the country, she delights in the process of showing up to her own practice of being human, and finds great joy navigating it with others.