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Women don’t just have too much to do—they’ve been conditioned to believe they should handle it alone. But what happens when you finally break and ask for help? Often, the system is already primed to doubt you.

In this episode, Dr. Charlie Hornace uncovers:

✔ Why Women Are Trained Not to Ask for Help (And How to Rewire That Conditioning) ✔ The Neuroscience of Overwhelm: Cognitive Load, Decision Fatigue & The Fawn Response ✔ How Your Nervous System Traps You in Compliance (And How to Break Free) ✔ The Real Reason You Can Handle Million-Dollar Projects but Can’t Pick Dinner ✔ The Step-by-Step Plan to Reclaim Your Energy Without Guilt or Burnout

If you’ve ever thought, “I can’t keep doing this alone,”—this episode is for you.

✔ Why do women struggle to ask for help? ✔ What is the fawn response, and how does it keep women stuck? ✔ How does cognitive overload lead to burnout? ✔ Why do I feel exhausted but still can’t say no? ✔ What’s the best way to break free from overfunctioning? ✔ How can women set boundaries without guilt? ✔ What are the signs that I’m carrying too much alone?

✔ Burnout isn’t a failure—it’s a sign you’ve been carrying too much for too long. ✔ Women are socialized to overfunction and to equate worth with self-sacrifice. ✔ Your nervous system isn’t broken—it’s just reacting to chronic stress. ✔ Fawning is a trauma response, not a personality flaw. ✔ You don’t need permission to ask for help (but the system makes you think you do). ✔ The best way to set boundaries? Expect pushback and follow-through.

⏳ 00:00 - Why women don’t ask for help until it’s too late ⏳ 01:28 - The invisible weight of cognitive overload ⏳ 04:52 - Why decision fatigue makes even small choices exhausting ⏳ 05:39 - The fawn response: Why women freeze instead of resisting ⏳ 07:14 - The neuroscience behind why women overfunction ⏳ 09:20 - Boundaries that actually work (without guilt) ⏳ 10:50 - Systemic gaslighting: Why burnout isn’t taken seriously ⏳ 13:01 - How to reframe gaslighting in real-time ⏳ 17:25 - Why your nervous system needs a reset ⏳ 18:55 - Breaking out of the overfunctioning cycle once and for all

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• 🚀 How to Set Boundaries That Actually Work → https://youtu.be/vfbCiHbiC2g

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🚀 You don’t have to prove your worth by doing it all alone. It’s time to break the cycle.