Status Updates From Balanced Woman Playbook: A ...

“You did not lose yourself.
Your nervous system protected you by narrowing focus.
Your identity is not gone.
It is waiting for safety.
When identity collapses, something else follows.
A deeper disorientation.
A sense of being untethered from life itself.”

“Stress becomes identity.
Busy becomes status.
Overwork becomes virtue.
Exhaustion becomes proof of ambition.
Women are praised for:
• Doing it all
• Never stopping
• Always being available
• Never resting
• Always performing
Rest is framed as laziness.
Boundaries are framed as weakness.
Slowness is framed as failure.
This trains women to override their own biology.”

“Modern women are praised for doing many things at once. It is framed as efficiency. It is framed as competence. It is framed as strength. In reality, multitasking is one of the most neurologically
expensive behaviors the human brain can perform.”