Defining your boundaries may actually increase your spiritual accessibility. Of course, the people who say it are well intended and usually they're worried about my health. Of course, they're quite often right. The truth is that I have fought a long and mostly unsuccessful battle with a tendency to workaholism.
Workaholism is a disorder with some remarkable similarities to other addictive behaviors.
It is ultimately self destructive although it can earn us quite a bit of recognition before we burn out. It can be especially difficult to criticize a pastor who is working 60-70 hours week to rebuild a church, to keep a growth spurt going, to help the church to reach out into new areas of ministry, or to help new believers to grow as spiritual persons. I was not sufficiently self aware, and I worked almost seven days a week for the first three months in my second parish because I thought that my parishioners needed me to do that. Of course, some of my parishioners helped me to think that way. In fact, one of them got a head start on my first night in that parish.