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Why Worrying Drains Your Energy and How to Get It Back

Why Worrying Drains Your Energy and How to Get It Back

Worry feels protective, but it spends your energy and returns nothing. Lori Montry explains the thought and body loop behind anxious thinking and four steps to interrupt it.

Two Questions That Changed How I Spend Myself

Two Questions That Changed How I Spend Myself

Whether you can do something tells you almost nothing about whether you have the resources to do it well. Here are the two questions I ask instead, and what changed when I started asking them.

Being Capable Was Never the Problem. Running on Empty Was.

Being Capable Was Never the Problem. Running on Empty Was.

Why the difference between what you're capable of and what you actually have the capacity for might be the most important distinction you've never made, and what changes when you finally do.

Why Strong People Burn Out

Why Strong People Burn Out

Burnout isn't weakness. It's what happens when capability outruns capacity. A somatic practitioner and former lawyer explain the difference between what you're capable of and what you have available, and why that distinction changes everything.

You Blame Yourself for Everything. Here's Why.

You Blame Yourself for Everything. Here's Why.

Why does everything feel like your fault, even things you didn't cause? A somatic practitioner explains where the belief "it's always me" comes from, why it once made sense, and how to tell what belongs to you.

The Two Versions of You (And Which One Is Running Your Life)

The Two Versions of You (And Which One Is Running Your Life)

Why do you keep doing things you don't want to do, feel overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself? A look at the Adapted Self and the Expansive Self, and how to tell which one is leading your life.