When chasing better no longer works

She got that promotion! The years of finessing how to be great at her job have finally paid off. Only now she has even more work and expectations have shifted. She barely has time to figure out how, exactly. She’s put in more hours, and never seems to get on top of things. She’s feeling like she’s always running just to keep up, when she would like to feel in charge, anticipating, strategizing and preparing.

And she still wants to make time for her family. They deserve her care and attention, and she needs theirs. Somehow she finds a way to fit everything in, but it is exhausting. People admire her for being such a powerhouse, and that feels like an achievement.

She works very hard not to show how much effort it takes to maintain that carefully crafted persona. She keeps that nagging sense of not living up to expectation, of not really doing any of it well, to herself. But the load is getting too heavy. She doesn’t want to be strong all the time. It’s too hard. She feels stuck: she doesn’t want to upend her whole life, but she needs to find more joy in it all if she is to keep going.

If you recognize any of this from your own experience, then ask yourself: how long can you keep going as you are? What are you risking?

If you feel there is no space for joy and lightness in your life because you can’t shed any of your obligations, how is that working out for you?

You don’t have to change your whole life. I can help you figure out what levers you have to let joy and light back in, and how you can handle them. When you’re ready, give me a call to talk through what that could look like for you.

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