Counselling for Women

You never quite feel like you measure up.

For as long as you can remember, you have always worked hard to meet the expectations of everyone around you.

You might call yourself a “people pleaser”, but one thing is for sure, you don’t feel ‘pleased’ with how things are going for you right now.

Your struggle to say ‘no’ has left you exhausted. 

And even though feel like you are falling apart inside, you’d still hate for people to know you felt like you were coming unglued. So you run yourself into the ground trying to juggle all the balls and make sure nothing important comes crashing down.  

Your emotions are overwhelming.

Some days you feel numb.  But more often, your emotions feel overwhelming. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to shake this stirred up feeling inside.   

But you’re not one to ask for help.  You couldn’t even imagine tell anyone about your racing mind and that the anxious, unsettled feelings inside of you are unbearable. 

And so you put on your brave face and carry on, as though everything is just fine.  

You felt like you could keep it all together, until now.

Lately, things have been hard. You’ve been feeling more down than even before.  

Low energy, limbs like molasses. You just can’t get yourself motivated to tackle life and all of your responsibilities the way you used to.  

It’s like all the ways you had learned to cope no longer apply. And you’re too drained to keep trying harder.

Everything feels disorganized and imperfect and there seems to be no way to get it all all back in on track. You feel like you can’t get caught up and yet you’ve never been so exhausted in your life.  

On good days, you can fake it.  You paste on a smile so that on the outside it looks like you have it all together.  But truth is, on the inside you feel like you are falling apart.