#196: What if the peace you’re protecting is actually performance? We go straight at the cost of staying quiet—how it starts in childhood, mutates into hyper-independence, and shows up as “I’m fine” until it explodes. Along the way, we unpack why so many of us can hold firm at work yet struggle to speak up in the relationships that matter most, and we offer compassionate ways to trade avoidance for clarity without lighting everything on fire. We break down the moment before a hard conversati...
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#196: What if the peace you’re protecting is actually performance? We go straight at the cost of staying quiet—how it starts in childhood, mutates into hyper-independence, and shows up as “I’m fine” until it explodes. Along the way, we unpack why so many of us can hold firm at work yet struggle to speak up in the relationships that matter most, and we offer compassionate ways to trade avoidance for clarity without lighting everything on fire. We break down the moment before a hard conversati...
#192: When the chat goes quiet, our brains get loud. We’ve all felt that sharp drop from constant conversation to three dots and nothing, and the stories that rush in to fill the gap. Today we examine what silence actually communicates, why it triggers so much anxiety, and how to turn those empty spaces into clear signals for boundaries, self-respect, and better relationships. We start by reframing silence as a language: sometimes it’s bandwidth, sometimes discomfort, sometimes slow-fade mis...
Babbles Nonsense
#196: What if the peace you’re protecting is actually performance? We go straight at the cost of staying quiet—how it starts in childhood, mutates into hyper-independence, and shows up as “I’m fine” until it explodes. Along the way, we unpack why so many of us can hold firm at work yet struggle to speak up in the relationships that matter most, and we offer compassionate ways to trade avoidance for clarity without lighting everything on fire. We break down the moment before a hard conversati...
