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Ep 166 The Women Who Never Fully Power Down
A lot of women walk around exhausted, but they don't fully realize their nervous system has never actually learned how to power down anymore.
Their brain wakes up immediately carrying responsibilities, mental lists, future problems, health concerns, conversations, things they forgot, things they need to manage…
Like opening 47 tabs all at once.
And over time, many women stop recognizing this as stress.
They start calling it personality.
In this episode, I explore:
• hypervigilance and chronic nervous system strain
• why so many capable women wake up already overwhelmed
• emotional bracing and…
The skinny
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