Does this sound familiar? Your team brings you problems, and you jump in to fix them. At first, it feels good—you’re needed, you’re competent, you’re “the one with answers.” But before long, you’re drowning under everyone else’s issues, your calendar is overrun, and—worst of all—your team is stalled out, waiting for you instead of thinking for themselves. What feels like leadership is actually a trap: the Rescuer role in the Drama Triangle. And unless you break it, you’ll keep cultivating dependency instead of initiative, burnout instead of empowerment.