The word ‘lazy’ can sting. A luxurious Sunday lie-in factored into your week can easily be dismissed as a lazy morning by those who don’t quite know the extent of your exhaustion. Maybe you should have got up and run a 5k, you might tell yourself. Or perhaps you should be polishing your CV or meal prepping or doing anything other than, well, getting the rest you need.

A year ago, writer Emma Gannon found herself in this exact situation – berating herself as lazy every time she tried to rest. “My fear of being seen as ‘lazy’ led to panic attacks, anxiety and a complete meltdown of my nervous system last year. I desperately needed a break but I didn’t know how to stop,” she writes for Stylist Extra this week. “I knew something big had to change. After a decade of striving (and, like everyone, surviving a pandemic), had I earned my right to rest yet?”

She isn’t alone. According to a 2020 study by the Resolution Foundation, most people in the UK are spending less time on leisure than they did 40 years ago. Instead, we spend our time constantly striving for the next thing and running ourselves down in the process. In the end, Gannon took time out to re-evaluate the way she thought about rest and recovery and realised she’d need to change her whole worldview to allow laziness to be part of her life. While hard at first, it’s a reckoning worth having. 

Hannah Keegan, 
Features Editor, Stylist 

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