Chelsea

“Menlo has won awards for being among the most innovative, democratic, creative, and cool places to work. It even was honored by the American Psychological Association for having one of the most “psychologically healthy” workplaces. It’s also making money.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“Without time to reflect, to live fully present in the moment and face what is transcendent about our lives, Hunnicutt says, we are doomed to live in purposeless and banal busyness. “Then we starve the capacity we have to love,” he said. “It creates this ‘unquiet heart,’ as Saint Augustine said, that is ever desperate for fulfillment.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“Brown has since taken more than six thousand “play histories” of people. And what he finds in those who do not make time for play—in either attitude or activity—is often joylessness, rigidity, addiction, workaholism, diminished curiosity, and, at the core, depression.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“Almost always, communication tends to be most difficult precisely when it’s most important. As the relationship coach Marcia Baczynski has put it, “If you’re afraid to say it, that means you need to say it.” When we are feeling most raw, most vulnerable, most scared of opening up, those are the times we most need to open up.”
― Franklin Veaux, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory