You are not a project.

Episode Two of Chronically Over It is live.

If you’ve ever looked at your life and thought, “Cool, now what do I do with THAT?”—same. Especially in therapy I can’t tell you how many times I feel like I can not work through one more trauma wound.

In this episode, I talk about the sneaky, relentless urge to “improve” ourselves into worthiness. The voice that tells us our peace is on the other side of being more disciplined, more healed, more emotionally regulated, more [insert exhausting checkbox here].

And let’s be honest—it’s not just hustle culture. It’s that deep internal programming that makes us believe love, rest, and gentleness have to be earned.

I get into how my own late ADHD diagnosis cracked that open for me. I spent years treating my identity like a never-ending group project with invisible deadlines. Always chasing a “better” version of myself that—spoiler alert—didn’t exist.

What I’m starting to realize (and say out loud in this episode) is that self-worth doesn’t come from becoming more palatable or impressive. It comes from stopping long enough to ask, “Who told me I wasn’t enough before?”

Maybe you don’t need to reframe it. Maybe you don’t need a new plan.Maybe you’re just tired.And the most honest thing you can do is stop performing long enough to hear what you actually need.

This episode is a reminder that rest is not a reward. Growth is not a checklist. And you don’t need to be inspiring to be worthy of love.

🎧 Episode Two is live: Listen on Spotify or Apple, or anywhere you listen to podcasts!📌 Save it for the next time you spiral and try to solve it with a new routine.

💌 Share it with a friend who’s also tired of feeling like a full-time self-improvement project.

You're not broken.You're just not a machine.

Thank you for listening. 🫶🏼

to the brave thing,

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