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Ever wonder why you jump in to fix, smooth, and stabilize before anyone even asks? In this episode, we unpack the neurobiology of over-responsibility-how a highly attuned brain and nervous system can mistake other people’s tension for a threat to your own safety.

Rather than shaming the instinct to help, we examine how early somatic learning shapes this pattern. Long before conscious choice, your nervous system learned through tone of voice, silence, micro-expressions, and relational rupture that intervening reduces uncertainty. That reduction in uncertainty creates relief via dopaminergic and limbic pathways - not because stepping in is always aligned with your values, but because it temporarily restores predictability.

Dr Amen Kaur will walk through the neuroscience behind this loop, including:

• the medial prefrontal cortex, integrating self–other representations
• the temporoparietal junction, amplifying perspective-taking and responsibility attribution
• the superior temporal gyrus, decoding social meaning and implicit cues
• the anterior insula, mapping interoceptive signals and threat salience

When this network is chronically activated, unresolved situations register as bodily alarms. Action becomes regulation. Regulation becomes identity. Over time, the cost isn’t just fatigue - it’s stalled careers, capped earning potential, constrained leadership, and creative energy siphoned into managing other people’s emotional states.

You’ll also learn how passive nonverbal control - withdrawal, disappointment, ambiguity, subtle neediness - can recruit you into action without a single request, and why guilt or anxiety spikes when you resist. These reactions aren’t moral failures; they’re predictable outputs of a sensitized regulatory system.  So its NOT YOU - its something you can unlearn somatically

Finally, we pivot to change. You’ll learn a brief, neurobiologically informed pause that brings prefrontal cognition online so sensation becomes data, not command. We explore a reframing that separates responsibility from regulation, allowing boundaries to register as safety rather than threat. A real client example shows how breaking the caretaker loop at work restored agency, redirected talent, and unlocked growth that had been stalled for years.

If you’re ready to stop sacrificing your

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