09/02/2026
This post is not here to tell you to stop loving.
Or stop showing up.
Or stop being responsible.
It’s here to say: I see you.
I see the effort it takes to care, to adjust, to hold families together, to be available, to do the “right” thing- even when it quietly costs you.
Most of us were taught that love looks like giving without questioning, that values mean endurance, that feeling tired is something to push through. So when exhaustion shows up, we don’t name it- we judge it.
This post names it gently, because unnamed exhaustion doesn’t disappear.
It just turns inward.
Self-abandonment is easily learnt.
It’s not a trauma response.
It’s a cultural and relational skill we picked up early- by watching, by absorbing, by wanting to be good, loving, worthy.
Naming this is not rebellion.
It’s regulation.
You don’t have to stop caring for your parents.
You don’t have to stop showing up for your spouse, your children, your family.
The work is simpler - and harder: to validate what you feel while you do what you do, so you don’t disappear from your own life in the process.
Awareness doesn’t change your roles.
It changes how alone you feel inside them.
If this post made you feel seen rather than corrected, that’s intentional.
This is the kind of awareness we practice and integrate inside our group sessions—where nothing about you is wrong, and nothing you feel is dismissed.
If you feel the pull, DM ALIGNMENT.
Not to fix yourself.
But to stay with yourself, while living the life you’re already in. 🤍