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Farhana Johnston posted an update
Over-functioning women do not know how anxious they are because anxiety looks like productivity on them.
It looks like planning, fixing, monitoring, remembering everything, helping everyone, staying busy enough to avoid feeling.
From the outside, it looks responsible. From the inside, it feels like “If I stop managing all of this, everything will fall apart.”
That is not peace. That is pressure wearing sensible shoes.
Over-functioning can make a woman look powerful while quietly draining the life out of her.
You do not become safer by carrying what was never yours.
You do not become more lovable by needing less.
You do not become more worthy by running yourself into the ground.
Sometimes the most healing thing you can do
is notice what you do automatically when you are afraid.
What do you control when you do not feel safe?
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