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Welcome to The Messy Middle. This is where we talk about what it means to live in the in-between—between healing and wholeness, clarity and confusion, exhaustion and hope.
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The Help You Won't Let Yourself Take (opens the original)
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You've learned to need almost nothing. You'd rather do it the hard way, on your own, than ask for help and feel whatever asking brings up in you. It looks like independence, and a lot of it is, but underneath sits a quieter belief that needing something says something about you.This episode is about where that belief came from and what it costs you to keep hiding what you need. We get into the shame that shows up around asking, the definition of "capable" you were handed before you had any say i
The Cost of Survival (opens the original)
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You've always been the one who handles things. When life got hard, you found a way through, and somewhere along the way being strong stopped feeling like a choice and started feeling like the only version of you that's allowed to exist.This episode is about what that strength has quietly cost you. We get into where it came from, how it went from something you do to something you think you are, and the uncomfortable gap between being able to carry something and actually wanting to.If you've spent
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