She was doing everything right. And she was still exhausted.
This is the story of one leader who finally understood why her body wouldn't let her rest, and what changed when she did.
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Pi is infinite. Your capacity isn't. That truth sounds simple- until you've spent years convincing yourself it doesn't apply to you. Here's what I think is actually happening.
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I spent years noticing signals my body was sending and explaining every single one of them away. I was not in denial. I was not ignoring the signs. I was doing something I did not yet have a name for. This is the piece I wish someone had handed me decades ago.
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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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Last week a simple negotiation with my bookkeeper cost me three hours, and the actual negotiating was maybe twenty minutes of it. The rest was something most productivity advice has never once accounted for, and if you're a woman who leads with both excellence and empathy, you already know exactly what filled that time. I'm calling it relational asymmetry, and once you see it, you'll start counting the real cost of every "simple" conversation that somehow leaves you completely drained. The full story is here.
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