Body-First Healing Podcast

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The Cost of Being the Strong One: How Hyper-Independence Keeps You Depleted

The Cost of Being the Strong One: How Hyper-Independence Keeps You Depleted22 jul47 min

If you are the person everyone calls when something falls apart, this episode will help you understand why it is so hard to let anyone help you, and what that is costing your body. Britt explores how the strong one gets made, why hyper-independence is usually an attachment strategy rather than a personality trait, and how you can be highly functional and deeply dysregulated at the same time. You will learn why endurance without recovery breaks the system down, why recovery is relational rathe...