The One Who Learned to Stay Strong

This is the first video in our six-week series about the ways our inner child tries to cope. And this week, we begin with the one who learned to stay strong, even when she’s already exhausted.

There’s a kind of strength that doesn’t come from power, but from fear! the fear of what might fall apart if we stop holding on. We keep going, smiling, showing up.

We tell ourselves we’re fine, that we can handle it. Until one day, the body starts to whisper the truth. Because sometimes burnout isn’t just about work or being weak! It’s about all the years we kept being strong when we actually needed rest, care, or help.

Some of us burned out by holding everything together, trying to be perfect, dependable, unshakable. Others did it quietly, by always saying yes, by being there for everyone, until there was nothing left for themselves.

But the body remembers. The child inside remembers.

So let’s stop trying to be endlessly strong — and start being brave enough to rest, to ask, and to receive.