LWLW BLOG LIFE

The sweetest life is a well-lived life. Not because you’re trying to prove your worth to anyone. But because you’re done arranging your life around the people who diminished you. When you’ve been abused, neglected, or made invisible, it can feel tempting to explain yourself, prove your worth, plead your case, or perform your healing in public. You may find yourself over-functioning, over-extending, or over-speaking—trying to finally be understood by people committed to misu

If you’re exhausted from being the one who anticipates needs, smooths problems, carries emotions, and solves life for other grown people—this is your invitation to stand down. Not because you don’t care. Not because you’ve stopped loving. But because somewhere along the way, “helping” became overfunctioning—and overfunctioning became the price of connection and belonging. For many of us, fixing isn’t a personality trait. It’s a survival skill we learned early: keeping the p