22/06/2026
The tight jaw, the shoulders up near your ears, the grinding you only hear about from someone else. Most high-functioning women have lived with these so long they've stopped registering them at all.
It isn't that the signals stopped. We just got very good at overriding them. Most of us were taught young to push through and not make a fuss, to talk over what the body was saying long before we had words for it. After enough years, the cues go quiet. Not gone, just unheard.
What changes things is surprisingly small. Once you notice the tension, it becomes something you can use. A signal to stand up and walk. A sign that's enough work for today. The body starts offering information again, and you start trusting it enough to act on it.
It begins with learning to read your own nervous system, the one that's uniquely yours.
Send it to someone who'd check her shoulders halfway through reading this.