That feeling of falling behind… it’s heavy, isn’t it? Like you’ll never catch up. But what if that urgency isn’t coming from reality — it’s coming from a thought?

In this post, I explore how our inner critic fuels overwhelm with stories of not-enoughness, and how you can begin to question those stories with gentleness, not judgment. A breath of space in a world that keeps saying, “Go faster.”

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