Successful But Exhausted: Overachieving as a Trauma Response

CPTSD Medicine Podcast

Successful But Exhausted: Overachieving as a Trauma Response

If you looked at your achievements on paper, no one would guess the truth. But inside your head, or behind closed doors, it is a very different story.

If you are the human who achieves to survive, this episode is for you. Overachieving is not ambition gone too far. It is a trauma response. It is what happens when CPTSD convinces you that your worth depends on what you produce, how much you give, and whether you hold it all together.

In this episode, I take on overachieving directly and share what is happening internally when workaholism or over-identification with your professional identity takes over. You will learn why relaxing feels impossible, why guilt creeps in when you try, and how to begin breaking this cycle with CPTSD Medicine.

In this episode you’ll learn: ✦ Why overachieving is rooted in survival, not ambition ✦ How CPTSD fuels guilt when you try to rest ✦ Why external success never resolves inner shame ✦ How to start unburdening the trauma energies that drive workaholism

Less proving. More peace. Real freedom.

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