Are You Perpetually Checking Out?

"If you've been checking out all day, what you're doing is holding all of the things that you might need to be dealing with," she says. "When my thoughts and feelings get really, really loud, that might be a sign that you are perpetually checking out." If your schedule is packed such that you never have any downtime, create more pockets in your days and weeks where you aren't doing anything,. She adds: "I think checking out is as essential to our well-being as checking in"