A lot of women don't struggle because they don't have needs. They struggle because they've spent years ignoring them. In this episode, Carina explores why so many women feel guilty for needing rest, support, space, help, boundaries, or time for themselves, and how survival patterns can teach women that being needed feels safer than having needs.
Because eventually, constantly putting yourself last comes at a cost.
In this episode, we explore:
- Why many women lose touch with their own needs
- How self-abandonment happens in everyday life
- The connection between unmet needs, exhaustion, and resentment
- Why being needed can feel safer than having needs
- The hidden cost of constantly putting everyone else first
- Why healing isn't selfish
- How reconnecting with your needs helps you reconnect with yourself
If you've ever found yourself saying:
"I'm fine."
"I've got it."
"I've got it."
"I don't need anything."
This episode is for you.
Because maybe the problem isn't that you don't know what you need. Maybe survival taught you to stop listening.
If this episode resonated with you and you're ready to explore where self-abandonment has become normal in your life, I'd love to invite you to explore The Survival to Self Session™.
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Carina Bull is a trauma-aware facilitator, intuitive mentor, and host of Soul Medicine.
She helps emotionally exhausted women recognise and interrupt the survival patterns underneath over-functioning, hyper-vigilance, people-pleasing, emotional burnout, and self-abandonment so they can reconnect with themselves beneath survival mode.
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