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If you look calm and capable on the outside but constantly feel like a wreck inside, you’re not alone. This episode dives into the hidden world of high-functioning anxiety—the stress that hides beneath productivity, perfectionism, and people-pleasing.

I review 30 signs you might have high-functioning anxiety. You’ll learn how this type of anxiety can disguise itself as motivation and achievement, where it comes from, how it differs from classical anxiety, why it’s so hard for high-achieving moms to rest, and everyday warning signals that your nervous system is in unhealthy overdrive.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why I was furious when I first learned high-functioning anxiety was a thing
• The emotional, physical, and signs of high-functioning anxiety so you can recognize it for yourself
• The difference between drive and dysregulation, and where the need to perform actually comes from
• Why rest feels unsafe for ambitious moms
• Why you can’t out-organize or out-achieve your anxiety until you address the real, root cause

FOR MORE:

Download my FREE checklist of “30 Signs You Might Have High-Functioning Anxiety”

HOMEWORK:

Email me or DM me on Instagram @solutionsforsimplicity to let me know which, if any, of these signs surprised you and what you felt in your body hearing all these “symptoms” for perhaps the first time. Your homework for today is to gently reflect on whether any of this hit home for you and, if so, which parts and why.

COMING UP NEXT:

Join me back next episode to delve into the vicious ways high-functioning anxiety gets worse with motherhood and the many tell-tale ways it shows up in mom life.

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