At some point, being “the reliable one” can feel like a trap

because you become so good at anticipating what needs to be done, holding everything together, and needing very little from other people that eventually people start believing you don’t need anything at all.

I write about this in Where Do You Feel That in Your Body? and about what happens when the ways we learned to stay safe become the very patterns keeping us disconnected from ourselves 🩵 #somatictherapy #therapytok