02/06/2026
Iām interested in your opinion because a client and I ended up down a rabbit hole with this yesterday.
Weāve spent years being told to ājust get over it.ā
Suppress the emotion.
Ignore the feeling.
Push through.
And I donāt think thatās the answer.
But Iām also noticing a different trend emerging.
Weāre becoming more emotionally intelligent.
More self-aware.
More compassionate with ourselves.
More willing to set boundaries.
All good things.
Yet sometimes I wonder whether weāve become so focused on understanding ourselves that weāre forgetting to move.
A feeling becomes an identity.
A challenge becomes a narrative.
A setback becomes evidence.
Instead of asking, āWhat do I do next?ā weāre asking, āWhy do I feel this way?ā over and over again.
The irony is that awareness was supposed to create freedom.
Not become another place to get stuck.
Books like Untamed On Our Best Behaviour (big reccos from me by other fabulous women in my life) encourage us to question the rules weāve inherited, especially as women.
But awareness is only useful if it changes behaviour.
Otherwise weāre just collecting insights without creating change.
Human behaviour isnāt driven by knowledge alone.
Most people already know what would improve their life.
The gap is rarely information.
Itās action.
The sweet spot sits somewhere between suppressing your emotions and building your entire identity around them.
Recognise the pattern.
Understand the cause, interpret.
Then move.
Because eventually the work isnāt understanding yourself.
Itās becoming someone different because of what youāve understood.
Curious where you stand on this one.
Have we become better at self-awareness but worse at taking action?
