Self Sovereign Insights
Blog By Bethany Russell, MA, LPC
For the deeply feeling and highly ambitious - insights on reclaiming your power from within.
SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT
I've been thinking about this pattern I keep seeing with my clients.
They've built incredible things. Successful businesses, impressive careers, the kind of life that looks amazing from the outside. And they come to me saying some version of the same thing:
"I should be happy. I have everything I thought I wanted. But I feel... empty."
The part that gets me is how guilty they feel about it. Like they're ungrateful or broken for not feeling fulfilled by their success.
But here's what I've learned: achievement doesn't automatically heal your inner world.
YOUR OVERTHINKING ISN'T A CHARACTER FLAW
I need to tell you something that might surprise you.
Your overthinking isn't a character flaw. It's not a sign that you're neurotic or broken or doing life wrong.
It's a part of you that learned somewhere along the way that if you could just think through every possible scenario, you could prevent bad things from happening.
And honestly? It probably worked for a while.
But now this part is exhausted. And so are you.
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