bloom

You’re kind, driven, and self-aware. You usually succeed at what you set out to do, but underneath the surface you feel a constant pressure to do all of the things – be friendlier, nicer, more likable, more successful, more attractive…and to still find a way to hold it all together. 

You know on some level your expectations of yourself are often unrealistic, but you also worry about what would happen if you stopped striving so high. Regardless of how much you do, how big you love, how much you change your appearance, there’s a nagging sense that nothing you do translates to truly feeling good enough.

Because on paper your life is pretty “good,” it’s tough for you to voice, and sometimes even to acknowledge, the disconnect you feel from yourself and the people you love. You’re used to taking care of things on your own, so even though you might have plenty of people you could go to if you needed to, at the core, you feel lonely.

You struggle to speak up for your own needs. You’d rather internalize your own discomfort than take the chance of making anyone else uncomfortable. You worry constantly about what others are thinking. You try to do so much for everyone, and yet you’re often left feeling underappreciated and a bit resentful.

Your anxious self-doubt gets in the way of the life you want in so many ways. You struggle to feel present in your life, feel comfortable in your own skin, give yourself credit for your accomplishments, and engage in your relationships in a meaningful way.

You’ve been thinking for a while that something needs to change, but you’ve felt hesitant about what that process might entail. You might worry about the work it would take to confront the reasons why you feel unfulfilled. It feels like there’s so much to unpack, where would you even start?