There's a kind of exhaustion that doesn't show up as burnout at first. It shows up as a body that's been holding a position no one's clapping for. This week I wrote about what it means to be a defender in a world built for offense.
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I tried to watch Gilmore Girls. Everyone said I'd love it. Instead, I felt this growing discomfort I couldn't quite name, and I overrode it for four and a half episodes. What that experience revealed about why high-achieving women are so good at silencing their own signals is worth sitting with.
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High-achieving women experience setbacks while managing both cognitive excellence and empathetic relational processing—what I call dual operating systems. This is why traditional resilience advice falls short, and why the way you recover has to honor your nervous system, not just your productivity
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Those headaches? That pit in your stomach? The buzzing vibration in your chest at 3am?
That's your body screaming at you. She's been trying to get your attention.
What if you could listen—without having to burn it all down?
It’s important to vote. And I will. You should, too.
But I’m going to guess you’re in the habit of voting for everything and everyone but yourself.
On this Election Day, it’s important to know that you’ve already been placing your vote. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
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