Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind
The Badass Confidence Coach is your go-to podcast for high-achieving women and men ready to step into their full potential. Hosted by Anna Marolin, therapist, life coach, and 20-year triathlete, this show is not your average therapy session. Anna is on a mission to empower everyone to overcome their self-doubt, crush their goals, and live their most badass lives.
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Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind
293. The Emotional Price of Always Holding It Together
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You tell everyone you're fine before anyone even asks. You're the one who fixes things before anyone notices there's a problem, the one who never falls apart, the one everybody calls. And it's not because life is easier for you. It's because you never put any of it down.
Join Anna and Tim as they dig into what it actually costs to hold it together this well: the toll of expressive suppression, the moment competence starts running on empty, and why being the strong one so often means crying in the shower instead of in front of the people who love you. They talk through allostatic load, the fixer identity, and what real recovery looks like once powering through stops working.
This Episode Covers:
- Why looking like you have it together doesn't mean life is easier, it means you never put any of it down.
- The research on expressive suppression and what chronically pushing down emotion actually costs your nervous system.
- What allostatic load feels like once the bill finally comes due.
- Why competence and capacity aren't the same thing, and why almost nobody gets told that.
- The reflex to say "I'm fine" before anyone even asks, and what it's actually covering.
- Why receiving help is often harder than giving it, especially for high performers.
- The shift from "I need to power through" to "what would actually restore me".
Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.
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