What if anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional exhaustion aren’t signs that something is wrong with you?

What if they’re signs that you’ve been carrying too much for too long — often quietly, and often without enough support?

In this episode, I share a deeply personal reflection on how I came to realize that my mental health wasn’t the real problem. The real issue was overload — responsibility, pressure, and emotional weight that never seemed to let up.

This conversation is about reframing what we’ve been told, letting go of shame, and understanding what our symptoms have actually been trying to communicate.

In this episode, we talk about:

• why overwhelm is often mislabeled as a mental health issue

• how anxiety and burnout can be signals, not flaws

• why strong, capable women are often the most overwhelmed

• how living in survival mode affects the nervous system

• and why relief matters more than “fixing yourself”

This episode is for you if:

• you feel emotionally exhausted even when life looks “fine”

• you’ve been told to work on your mental health when what you needed was support

• you’re tired of feeling like you should be able to handle more

• you want a gentler, more compassionate way to understand yourself

This is a space to slow down, breathe, and realize you’re not broken — you’re burdened.

And burdened people don’t need fixing. They need relief.

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