Your identity is bigger than your productivity.
An evidence-based framework for reclaiming a life worth remembering.
Your identity is bigger than your productivity.
An evidence-based framework for reclaiming a life worth remembering.
Most accomplished people believe they don't have enough time for leisure. But when I look more closely — the time is often there. In small pockets. In the margins. In the hour after the kids go to bed.
What's missing isn't time. It's the internal permission to use that time for something that belongs entirely to you.
"Burnout isn't always exhaustion. Sometimes it's identity compression. A life so narrow there's no room for who you actually are."
At Canada's leading spinal cord rehabilitation centre, I helped people rebuild their lives after catastrophic injury and illness. What I kept seeing, again and again: the people who found their way back most completely were the ones who had a life beyond their circumstances.
When a chronic illness changed my own career path, I found myself applying everything I'd taught others directly to my own life. And I started noticing a pattern I couldn't unsee — accomplished women everywhere were quietly losing themselves to productivity and responsibility, and had no idea how to find their way back.
I knew exactly what was missing. So I built something about it.
"I believe we are made for more than productivity. The Leisure Method is what I built from everything I witnessed — and everything I lived."
BA, Therapeutic Recreation — University of Waterloo
Recreation Therapist
Two Peer-Reviewed Publications — Journal of Pain Research & Therapeutic Recreation Journal
A circular, non-linear model. You may enter at any point. A lifelong practice.
Not about finding more hours — about making different choices with the time you already have.
And How to Find Their Way Back — a free 60-minute live workshop with Nicole Leong, Recreation Therapist
Bring a friend who needs this hour.
"The kick in the butt we needed."
Workshop Attendee"Really appreciate the opportunity to come together to spend some time to think about this important topic."
Workshop Attendee"Hit the nail on the head."
Workshop AttendeeThe principles behind The Leisure Method are grounded in nearly two decades of clinical practice and two peer-reviewed publications. They apply wherever people are experiencing identity compression, burnout, and disconnection — including the workplace.
Nicole is available for keynotes, lunch-and-learn sessions, and workplace wellness seminars. If you are interested in bringing this work to your team, reach out directly.
nicole@leisuremethod.caJoin us on May 12th at 7:00pm ET for a free 60-minute live workshop. Enter your name and email and I'll send you everything you need.
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