
07/22/2025
đź”® THE TRANCE OF NEVER ENOUGH
How the Extractive Mindset Is Draining Brilliant Women—and What We Can Do About It
Lately, I’ve been coaching many brilliant, high-achieving women who—by all external measures—have made it. They are powerful, polished, deeply capable. And yet, over and over again, they confess something haunting:
“I feel like I should be doing more.”
”If I could just accomplish _______________
“I’m scared I’m going to lose it all.”
This is not ambition speaking.
This is ego exhaustion masked as purpose.
This is the extractive mindset at work.
And it is costing us our peace, our health, and our relationships.
“Waiting on a future success to feel true joy is like holding your breath until someone else says you can breathe.” —Jennifer Freed Read the rest of this article for free at drjenniferfreed on substack