Schulte, Brigid

Presents the argument that being busy and overwhelmed in modern life is physically affecting our human bodies, even brain sizes. Offers advice on how to slow down and make time for leisure activities in order to rest and recharge.

"This book asks whether working mothers in America -- or anywhere -- can ever find true leisure time. Or are our brains, our partners, our culture, our bosses, making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contained time," in which we are in frantic life management mode until we are sound asleep?"--.