You’ve developed routines that help you feel more secure. Maybe you count. You check. You clean. You ask other people for their opinions, just to be sure. There’s a part of you that knows it’s excessive, but another part of you feels like if you don’t do it, the anxiety will become unbearable.

You care deeply about what other people think. Although you’re incredibly capable, there’s a part of you that constantly feels like you’re not measuring up. You say yes to more than you really want to because the idea of disappointing someone feels unbearable.

And yet, you also feel a lot of resentment. Why does everyone always ask me to do everything? Can’t other people step in? But you don’t know how to say no without feeling guilty.

Your body hurts. Maybe it’s migraines, IBS, chronic fatigue, hair loss, autoimmune symptoms. You sense there’s some connection to stress, but you’re not sure how to make it stop. 

You’re not broken. You’re not weak. You’re not “too much.”

Your anxiety, your compulsions, your perfectionism—they all made sense once. They have even been praised. But now they’re keeping you from the very thing you want most: to feel genuinely at peace, to trust yourself, to just… be.