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Why High-Functioning Anxiety Happens: The Danger of Performance Becoming Your Identity
Why High-Functioning Anxiety Happens: The Danger of Performance Becoming Your Identity
What happens when performance stops being something you do… and becomes who you are? In this episode of Tranceformation Talks, Julie Chal explores the hidden link between high-functioning anxiety and performance-based self-worth. Many people with anxiety appear calm, capable, and successful on the outside. They achieve. They perform. They hold everything together. But underneath, their nervous system may still be operating by survival rules formed much earlier in life. Rules like: “I must get...