Emotional Suppression in Women: The Physiological Cost of “Being Fine”
Emotional suppression isn’t “maturity.”It’s not “professionalism.”And it’s definitely not “strength.” It’s a survival strategy — and your body pays the bill. Harvard Health has written about repressive coping (keeping difficult feelings inside) and notes it’s been linked in studies to immune impacts, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension, along with mental health conditions like stress, anxiety, and […]
The Hidden Grief High-Achieving Women Carry – and Why It Keeps Them Stuck
Most high-achieving women are grieving something they’ve never named. Not the obvious losses — but the invisible ones: This is grief. But because it doesn’t look like tragedy, we don’t treat it like grief. We call it “stress,” “exhaustion,” “a lot going on,” and then push through it like it’s nothing. The PICU moment that […]
Why Achieving Women Struggle With Embodied Confidence – Even When They Look Successful
Confidence isn’t a skill. Confidence isn’t a personality trait. Confidence isn’t how loud, polished, or articulate you are. Confidence is a nervous system state. It’s either embodied — or performed. High-achieving women are masters of performed confidence: But embodied confidence? That’s different. What embodied confidence actually is Embodied confidence is when your beliefs, your body, […]