Welcome to the Grind Culture Detox

A digital retreat for working professionals seeking a moment of pause to heal their relationship with work.

This experience will activate you to unlearn beliefs that contribute to grind culture and hyper productivity, integrate wellness rituals that create more fun and ease in your workday, and learn how to create a healing centered work space to enhance workplace well-being.

It’s time to move from surviving to thriving at work.


Are you Ready to Stop Grinding Yet?

Are your work-life boundaries in shambles? Are you burning the wick at both ends? 

Are seeking to return back to a life motivated by your passion as opposed to only your productivity? 

Does it feel like your to do list is endless?

If this is you, please know that you are not alone. I feel you and I’ve definitely been there. 

The Grind Culture Detox can help.

Are You:

  • Neglecting your mental, physical, or spiritual well-being in the name of productivity?

  • Doing work right before bed or first thing when waking up?

  • Feeling guilty for taking days off-Even when you have vacation or sick time accrued?

  • Seeing your relationship to work negatively impact quality time with your family?

  • Seeking an exit out of being on the productivity hamster wheel?

  • Tired of perpetuating grind culture but also don’t know how to make the shift?

  • Seeking simple practical strategies that create impactful results regarding how you feel during the workday?

The Grind Culture Detox is a five day retreat with a combination of three in person sessions as well as independent care work activities to process during self reflection days.

This retreat experience will teach you the following:

The Roots of Grind Culture 

  • The historical origins of grind culture in U.S. society

  • The role of race, gender, and ability in grind culture 

  • Assessing our personal relationship with grind culture through an assessment tool

  • Excavating values around work and productivity

  • Sound Bath Meditation for Interrupting Grind Culture




Somatic and Herbal Tools for Healing from Grind Culture

  • Introduction to the chakra system and how it supports productivity

  • Learn mindfulness techniques to move from hustle to flow at work

  • Practice gentle yoga poses to integrate into your work flow.

  • Learn about herbs that  Support the Flow State

  • Discover herbal remedies  that promote resting at work

  • Sound Bath Meditation for Relieving Stress and Anxiety



Strategies for Creating a Healing Centered Work Life 

  • Assess your relationship with your current workspace

  • Learn space clearing techniques to enhance positive and creative energy in your workspace.

  • Creating Humane Calendaring Practices

  • Thriving Tips for Working Remotely and Organizing a Spacious Work Life 

  • Learn tips to infuse joy into the work place





True Fact

I am a recovering perfectionist.

I am still learning the harmful belief system that capitalism asserts that one must grind to succeed and that in order to succeed, you must put work above all else. I’ve been the one who worked until bedtime to finish up a report for my employer. I’ve been the one who has sacrificed my mental and spiritual well being in the name of productivity.

My perfectionism and need to be the best was rooted in me not thinking that I was enough. I spent many years pouring more into my work, than I did in my own personal pursuits. This left me feeling drained, depleted and resentful and running on a hamster wheel of scarcity. . Even though I was working in an organization whose values I aligned with, my personal actions and beliefs were not congruent with my work. This lack of congruence kept me in a frenzy and in the toxic cycle of grinding. In order for me to shift this narrative, I had to step back, rest, reflect, and realign with my values in order to promote my own personal thriving. These learnings helped me to cultivate practices and rituals to transform my relationship with productivity and moved me from surviving to thriving at work. 

I created this course because although many people know that another way is possible it’s hard to operationalize divesting from grind culture at work because it’s roots run so deep. However, in a rapidly changing and chaotic world, we have a unique opportunity to reimagine our relationship to work as well as to reimagine our office space and its impact on our well-being. The Grind Culture Detox is designed to embed spiritual well-being within your daily  work rituals to create enhanced joy and thriving within your workday. This course will also help you to relinquish the grip that grind culture has in your work life so that you are able to heal and self actualize even when you’re at work. 

You are worth more than what you can produce. Another way is possible. 

Meet Your Instructor

More about Heather

Workplace Wellness Coach and Sound Healer

Heather Archer

Heather’s mission it to help her clients to reclaim their right to thrive in their professional and personal lives. She is a certified life coach, sound healer, hypnotherapy practitioner, and Reiki Level I and II master. She has a Bachelors degree in African American Studies from Smith College, and an Masters in Educational Leadership, Policy and Advocacy from New York University. As a former professor of Early Childhood Education and an Executive leader, Heather weaves her academic and organizational background with her work as a healer to create transformational learning experiences for you on your journey towards healing from perfectionism, toxic productivity, and grind culture in your work and personal life. Heather is compiling her healing and well-being strategies to thrive at work in her first book, titled, The Grind Culture Detox: Heal from Capitalism, Thrive at Work, to be released by Hierophant Publishing in June 2022.

It’s time to reclaim your right to thrive