When you want to quit but can’t

I want to talk about something that does not always get discussed very realistically in personal development spaces. The experience of being somewhere that is draining you, knowing you want to leave, and not being able to… Yet. And that yet is the important part, which we will get to in this post.

Personal development spaces tend to talk about this in a motivational way that does not always reflect reality. The "you just need to want it enough" version of this conversation does not acknowledge the bills, the responsibilities, the timing, all the very real things that keep you somewhere that is taking more from you than it is giving back…