Feeling anxious about free time isn’t about being a workaholic—it’s about how you use the margins.
I totally get that, and I think I’m more sensitive to the sense that ‘free time means my value is dropping’ than to being a workaholic. For me, during busy periods I power through, and during slower times I deliberately label it as “input, prep, and system-improvement time,” and without feeling guilty, I treat the gaps as part of the work as well.