You know that feeling when you’ve been “holding it together” all day, smiling at work, swallowing your frustration, pretending you’re fine, and then you get home and collapse on the couch, completely drained? That’s not resilience. That’s regulation fatigue. And it’s quietly breaking so many of us.

Therapy culture has given us some amazing tools — mindfulness, grounding, journaling — they really can change lives. But somewhere along the way, those tools stopped being just tools. They became rules.

It feels like we’re expected to walk........

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