Your Inner CEO Just Fired Your Inner People-Pleaser

(Or: The Biological Coup Nobody Warned You About When You Started Having Standards)

So there you are, probably reading this at 2 AM wearing the same bra for the third day while stress-eating cereal straight from the box, wondering why your manifestation journal has the same energy as your gym membership: expensive, guilt-inducing, and gathering dust while you scroll through spiritual memes instead of actually doing anything that might require you to feel your own body. Plot twist: your nervous system just staged an intervention, and it’s basically somatic therapy without having to pretend you’re “doing well” to a stranger with crystals and a waiting room that smells like everyone’s unprocessed childhood. 🔮

The Anatomy of Serving (Or: How We Became Golden Retrievers of Productivity)

Listen up, beautiful disaster with the anxiety-induced online shopping cart and the seventeen open browser tabs of self-improvement articles you’ll definitely read later: we’ve been programmed to believe that women’s power lives exclusively in the customer service department of life. That our worth is measured by our usefulness, like we’re some kind of human Swiss Army knife that better stay sharp or we’re getting returned to Costco with a passive-aggressive review. 📝

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This essay grew up and moved out. It lives in Flesh & Frequency: The Feral Science of Your Body’s Built-In Intelligence now.

The full text is in print. A book with a spine, a cover, and a body that holds the whole thing.