Overwhelmed vs. Overstimulated: The Introvert’s Distinction
You’ve cancelled plans for the third weekend in a row. Your partner asks what’s wrong, and you struggle to explain….
You’ve cancelled plans for the third weekend in a row. Your partner asks what’s wrong, and you struggle to explain….
The podium feels like an execution platform. You’ve prepared your material, built your slides, practiced your delivery. Yet standing there,…
The conference call ended at 4:47 PM. Sixteen voices, three competing agendas, forty-two minutes of circular discussion. I closed my…
Your social battery empties at a different rate than mine. After three hours networking at an industry conference, I’d retreat…
The notification appeared at 2:17 PM. Another coffee invitation. My third decline that week. Each time I typed the excuse,…
Someone asks how your weekend went. A simple question that should take 30 seconds to answer. Twenty minutes later, you’re…
The meeting had been scheduled for two hours. By minute forty-seven, my brain felt like an overloaded circuit board. Every…
Your brain feels like static. Every conversation feels like lifting weights. That text notification might as well be an air…
That notification popped up on my phone during a lunch break I’d blocked off as “sacred alone time.” Another team…