Tag: #CoachingWithSydney
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The Life That Survival Built
I was raised to be an overfunctioner. Rural settings, constant moves, and instability created a parentified child who grew into a hyper-empathetic, overfunctioning adult. In every relationship and every career setting, I showed up as the door prize…the unexpected dynamo who quietly won everyone over. “I just want to be a receptionist,” a partner teased me…
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When The Costume Changes, But The Operating System Doesn’t
Congruent Reinvention The personal development world has turned reinvention into another performance. Become your highest self, your future self, your 2.0 self, your most successful self. We are obsessed with optimizing, scaling, upgrading, reinventing. But most people reinvent from the very survival patterns they are unhappy with and trying to escape. They simply reinvent their…
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The Doctor Who Disappeared
He’d been working for hours and it was only 6 a.m. Reviewing messages, going to do rounds, checking the schedule, returning a couple of calls. He felt the exhaustion creeping in already and there were hours to go…There is a version of tired, all too familiar, that has nothing to do with hours worked. It’s…
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The Meaning Famine in Modern Medicine
A physician told me this week: “I have never had more data and felt less valued than I do right now. I mean, I don’t know if I can keep doing this.” That last line was spoken from such a deeply exhausted place that I felt myself leaning forward, my usual list of potential pivots…
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You Look Like You Have It Together-But Do You Feel Like It?
She sat in boardrooms in corporate America. She knew how to read a room, how to speak with authority, how to hold her ground in a meeting full of people who assumed they were the smartest one there. She dressed well. She delivered. She performed so exceptionally that she almost convinced herself it was the…
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The Martyr
When Sacrifice Becomes the Strategy Let’s talk about martyrdom. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that lives in high-achieving people. It doesn’t come from laziness. It doesn’t come from lack of vision. It comes from a pattern so deeply hard-wired, it doesn’t even feel like a choice anymore, it feels like your identity. You…
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Why Success Sometimes Makes Life Feel Harder
“Everything looks successful from the outside… so why does it feel this hard?” Over the years I’ve sat with many highly successful professionals, physicians, founders and leaders who experience this stage of success. I spoke with someone this week who gave me permission to share. Their business is thriving. Growth is strong. Receivables are up.…