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The Competence Trap: Healing High-Functioning Anxiety
Kamini Wood explores the hidden cost of high-functioning anxiety, where outward success and reliability often mask an internal state of constant bracing and vigilance. Kamini reframes extreme competence not just as a personality trait or work ethic, but as a protective adaptation—a nervous system strategy learned early in life to ensure safety by being useful, low-maintenance, and perfect. She discusses why high achievers find rest uncomfortable and control necessary, emphasizing that you cannot simply "logic" your way out of patterns held somatically in the body. Listeners will learn how to…
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