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Have you ever considered that one of the reasons you haven't left, changed, questioned—or even admitted you no longer want something—is because you're really damn good at it?

Sometimes competence keeps us in places long after we've begun questioning whether they still fit.

In this episode of The Healing Poetic Podcast, we're talking about the roles high-functioning women become exceptionally good at carrying: the career, motherhood, relationships, caregiving, problem-solving, being the dependable one, and sometimes even survival itself.

But there's an important difference between asking:

“Am I good at this?”

and asking:

“Is this still good for me?”

This isn't a conversation about quitting your job, leaving everybody behind, or blowing up a perfectly good life. It's about becoming conscious enough to make sure you're still choosing the life you're living.

Because you can appreciate what something has given you and still recognize that you're changing.

You can be successful and want something different.

You can love people and change the role you play in their lives.

And you can honor the woman who made yesterday's decisions without requiring today's woman to live by them forever.

Grab your journal for this one.

We're talking about competence, identity, validation, midlife, success, alignment—and what happens when the woman you've become finally gets a voice in deciding what comes next.

🎧 Listen now to The Healing Poetic Podcast.

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