If you’re high-functioning, capable, and holding a lot together, but quietly relying on alcohol or other coping habits to get through your days, this episode is for you.

I explore what happens when “it’s fine” actually isn’t, through a nervous system lens. You’ll learn why high-capacity women often use alcohol for relief, how stress and self-abandonment build over time, and why coping eventually stops working, even when life looks good from the outside.

This conversation is not about labels or rock bottom. It’s about understanding how chronic stress, productivity-as-worth, and nervous system dysregulation quietly shape behaviour and what your body is actually asking for instead.

In this episode, I cover:

• What it means to be a “high-functioning drinker”
• How alcohol becomes a nervous system permission slip
• The difference between coping and capacity
• Why stress drinking often escalates gradually
• How self-abandonment disguises itself as competence
• What supports regulation without white-knuckling

This episode is for women who are tired of surviving their own lives and ready to build relief, safety, and capacity, without forcing change.

Ways to continue the work:

🔁 Ongoing support: The Deliberate Practice — a steady rhythm of nervous system regulation, breathwork, and integration.

Free: The Complete Guide to Quitting Drinking .. a nervous-system-based guide for understanding cravings, stress, and stop/start cycles.

🧭 Personalized clarity: The Personal Power Map — a personalized nervous system and identity audit with a video walkthrough.

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