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 women 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.
"You don't have a time problem. You have a permission problem."
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.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"— Mary Oliver
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While The Leisure Method was designed with accomplished women in mind, the principles are grounded in therapeutic recreation science and apply across populations. Healthcare teams, rehabilitation programmes, community organisations, and corporate wellness groups — if you’re interested in bringing The Leisure Method to your setting, I’d love to hear from you.
Get in TouchQuestions about the workshop or program? I'd love to hear from you.
nicole@leisuremethod.ca