Have you ever felt like you’re totally "fine" on the outside – maybe even killing it in your career – but inside, your heart is racing and your brain has fifty tabs open at once?
If you’ve been nodding along to the idea of being a high-achiever while feeling like your hair is secretly on fire, you’re not alone.
Shelley Martinez, a licensed psychotherapist and "Anxiety alchemist", has spent nearly 30 years helping women over 40 transform their relationship with Stress.
We’re getting real about "high-functioning anxiety" – that invisible twin to regular anxiety that we’ve all just accepted as the "price of success."
Shelley explains that we aren’t "anxious people" by nature; we just have a nervous system stuck in survival mode. This conversation is a total masterclass in midlife reinvention, moving away from just "coping" (which is like bailing water out of a leaky boat) and finally "patching the hole" through true healing.
Shelley is so down-to-earth and reminds us that it is never too late to change the narrative.
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👇 I’d Love to hear from you in the comments:
Which "high-functioning" habit do you find yourself doing most often – is it the overworking, the perfectionism, or the inability to say no?
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