11/21/2025
We’ve all been the “This is Fine” dog.
You know the meme — the dog sitting calmly in a burning room saying, “This is fine.”
It’s funny… until you realize how often we live like that.
For so many women, “I’m fine” has become the default setting — the nervous system’s way of staying safe when life feels like too much.
We keep smiling through chaos.
We show up for everyone else.
We push past the exhaustion because we’ve learned that rest looks lazy and asking for help looks weak.
But here’s the truth:
Suppression isn’t strength. It’s survival.
And when emotions are pushed down, they don’t disappear — they embed.
They live in the body as tension, fatigue, migraines, irritability, disconnection, or that quiet ache that whispers “I can’t keep doing this.”
Your “fine” might actually be your body begging for stillness.
Your anxiety might just be your system saying, “I can’t hold any more.”
Healing starts when you stop pretending the fire isn’t burning —
and start listening to what your body’s been trying to say all along.
It’s okay to not be fine.
It’s okay to step out of the flames.
That’s not weakness — that’s wisdom.
