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Anxiety has entered the chat… again 📱

The unread message. Cancelling plans because staying home feels safer. Your heart racing and convincing yourself that something must be wrong. Replaying one conversation 40 times and somehow deciding every version was your fault.

Anxiety can make uncertainty feel like danger and thoughts feel like facts. I always ask Is that fact? Or is it a feeling?

But when you begin to understand what’s actually happening in your mind and body, you can learn how to respond differently instead of constantly fighting against it.

That’s exactly why I created the Headstrong Co. Anxiety Workbook. To help you understand your patterns, regulate your nervous system and find practical ways to manage anxiety.

Available now through the link in my bio 🤎

Which of these conversations have you had before?

Sometimes healing starts with permission.

Sometimes healing starts with being told:

You’re allowed to feel how you feel.
You’re not too much.
You don’t have to carry everything alone.

Therapy isn’t about fixing people; it’s about creating enough safety and understanding for people to begin trusting themselves again.

Reviews like this mean everything, and it’s the reason I love my job

Nobody tells you that the worst burnout advice is usually the most productive-sounding. Save this for the week you need it.

Most people try to fix burnout before they’ve worked out what kind of empty they’re actually running on. The workbooks walk you through that part first, then the skills. In your own time. Link in bio.

September has this weird way of making us feel like we should suddenly have our s**t together again.

New routines, new goals, back to work, back to school, back to being productive.

But this September feels a bit different for me.

I’ve reached the end of my capacity lately. I’ve had to admit that I’m burnt out and that I can’t just keep pushing through it because there’s always something else that needs doing.

And actually, slowing down hasn’t looked particularly exciting.

It’s looked like reading a book. Having slower mornings. Sorting out a cupboard that’s been annoying me for months. Painting a room. Staying home more. Doing one small thing and sometimes deciding that’s enough for the day.

I think I needed life to become a bit smaller for a while.

I’m so used to thinking about the next thing. Work, the kids, Headstrong, ideas, plans, what I should be doing, what I haven’t done yet. Even rest can somehow become another thing I feel like I should be doing properly.

So I’ve had to stop.

Not completely, because life doesn’t exactly stop with you, but enough to actually notice how tired I’d become.

And now I’m slowly starting to look forward again. I’ve started looking at jobs and thinking about what I actually want next, rather than just what I’m capable of carrying.

I don’t have a big September reset planned. I’m not setting ten goals or promising myself I’ll become a completely different person by October.

I think my reset is much quieter than that.

It’s asking myself what I want to take with me into the next season and what I’m actually ready to put down.

Maybe you’re there too.

Maybe you’ve spent the summer holding everything together and September doesn’t need to be the month you suddenly do more.

Maybe it can be the month you make things a little smaller, listen to yourself a little more and slowly find your way back to the things that feel like you.

You’re allowed to enter autumn gently 🍂

Jade x

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Anxiety doesn’t always look like anxiety.

Sometimes it looks like procrastination.
Irritability.
Needing control.
Exhaustion.
Avoidance.

And when we only recognise anxiety as worry or panic, we can miss what our nervous system is actually trying to tell us.

Your reactions aren’t random. They make sense when you understand what’s happening underneath them.

That’s why the Headstrong Anxiety Workbook isn’t about telling you to “just stop worrying.” It helps you understand your patterns, recognise what’s happening in your body, and practise tools that actually support regulation.

Understand what’s happening.
Learn what helps.
Practise it when you need it.

Small steps. Nervous system first. 🤍

The Headstrong Anxiety Workbook is available now.

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It’s all a bit embarrassing for everyone making changes until you realise it’s actually growth.

Saying no when you’ve always been the one who says yes.
Setting boundaries and worrying people will think you’ve changed.
Going to therapy.
Admitting you’re struggling.
Taking medication if you need it.
Leaving situations you’ve spent years trying to make work.
Talking about your feelings instead of pretending you’re fine.
Choosing yourself and feeling guilty for it.

When you’ve spent years surviving in a certain way, doing something different can feel uncomfortable, awkward even embarrassing.

But healing doesn’t always look profound.

Sometimes it looks like doing the things you once judged yourself for needing.

And eventually you realise…

it wasn’t embarrassing. You were learning how to look after yourself.

You don’t need just another week off!

We talk about burnout like it’s a rest problem.
You took the time off you got more sleep. You switched off almost too much maybe even booked a holiday.

And yes, rest matters. But what happens when you come back and nothing about the life that burnt you out has actually changed?

Your back to the same pressure, patterns, expectations.
The same inability to switch off. The same version of you trying to hold everything together.

Burnout can mean you stop asking or expecting yourself to become better at coping.

It’s asking you to look at what you’ve been coping with so that recovery doesn’t just mean getting yourself well enough to tolerate the same things all over again.

Maybe you don’t need another break from your life. Maybe something within your life needs to change.

Save this if you’re tired of being told to “just rest.” 🤍