You're Not Working. So Why Are You Still Working?

Podcast: Project Joyful · Tracy Tutty

Opublikowano: 2026-09-26

The laptop is closed. Nobody's messaged you. And still, some part of you hasn't actually stopped monitoring. Tracy Tutty explores standby, the physiological state hiding underneath rest that doesn't restore you, and why closing your laptop was never the same as your body receiving permission to stop. In This Episode• The difference between stopping the activity of work and relinquishing your availability for it • Standby as a physiological state: how neuroception and the hypothalamus-amygdala threat response keep you scanning long after you've logged off • Why a quick check "just to see" resets your nervous system’s path...