SayIt Mental Health

SayIt Mental Health Anxiety Therapist for High-Achieving Women who are quietly drowning in overwhelm, ease anxiety, build boundaries, + reconnect with themselves!

Accepting clients in NV + MT. Schedule today! ⬇️

02/23/2026

Some of the hardest work for high-achieving women isn’t learning what to do.�It’s accepting that no one can do it for you.

Therapy can guide you, reflect things back, and support you through the process. But these shifts still have to land inside you.

Here’s the part many high-achieving women don’t expect in therapy: Some of this work still has to be figured out on your own.
• letting go of productivity as an identity
• unlearning the belief that stillness = laziness
• making decisions without explaining or justifying them
• holding boundaries even when it feels uncomfortable
• trusting yourself without over-preparing
• regulating emotions instead of suppressing them
• choosing support before burnout forces it

Therapy can support you through all of this, but the insight has to land for you.

👩🏼‍💻If you’re a high-achieving, anxious woman learning how to stop managing everything through control, overthinking, and sheer willpower, follow for support that meets you where you are.

High-achieving women don’t burn out because they’re weak. They burnout because they’re exceptional at carrying what was ...
02/22/2026

High-achieving women don’t burn out because they’re weak. They burnout because they’re exceptional at carrying what was never meant to be theirs.

You became:
🤍 The reliable one.
🤍 The low-maintenance one.
🤍 The capable one.
🤍 The one who “doesn’t make it hard for anyone.”

And somewhere along the way, your worth got tied to how little you need and how much you can handle.

So when someone says, “Just set boundaries,” it’s not that you don’t know how.

It’s that your body interprets boundaries as risk.

If you stop over-functioning…
Who are you?
If you say no…
Will they be disappointed?
If you pull back…
Will you still be valued?

This isn’t about becoming selfish.
It’s about unlearning the belief that love, success, and safety are earned through self-abandonment.

🤍 I work with anxious, high-achieving women in Nevada + Montana who are ready to stop performing strength and start actually feeling supported. Schedule a free consult with the link in bio. 🤍





02/21/2026

As a therapist for high-achieving women with anxiety, I’ll say this clearly: just because you can handle it doesn’t mean it needs your attention right now.

Anxious urgency makes everything feel immediate: the laundry, the emails, the to-do list running in your head. But urgency isn’t the same as importance.

Interrupting urgency is a skill.�It’s pausing long enough to ask, “Does this actually need me right now?”�Most of the time, the answer is no.

Not everything deserves immediate action.�And choosing to wait is often the most regulated response.

🙌🏽 Share this with the friend who seems to have it all together, but never lets themselves pause.

02/18/2026

If your self-worth drops the second your to-do list isn’t finished, this is for you.

Productivity didn’t just become something you do; it became how you measure your value.�Busy feels safe.�Rest feels uncomfortable.�And unfinished tasks feel like failure.

But who you are isn’t what you complete.�You don’t lose worth on slower days.�And you don’t have to earn rest by overfunctioning first.

Breaking the habit of evaluating yourself by output is real mental health work, especially for high-achieving women who learned to survive by staying productive.

Your worth isn’t measured in checkmarks.�✅ Follow for therapy-informed support for high-achieving women who are tired of measuring themselves by productivity.

02/17/2026

I’m not kidding when I say high-achieving women can do it all. And you know I’m right. 😉

They show up.�They follow through.�They exceed expectations even when they feel completely done inside.

What people don’t see is how often that “I’ve got this” is powered by pressure, not capacity.�By a nervous system that’s learned to push through instead of pausing.�By functioning so well on the outside that no one realizes support is needed on the inside.
Feeling done internally while still exceeding expectations externally isn’t resilience, it’s survival.

You don’t need to fall apart for it to count.�You don’t need to stop functioning to deserve care.�And you don’t need to prove how capable you are before you’re allowed to rest.

🌟 Share this with someone who never lets anything fall apart.

02/13/2026

Say what you want, but you’re actually not “fine.”

Here are 10 things I wish I understood back when I called myself “fine”:

1. Rest felt uncomfortable because I learned to feel safe through productivity.

2. I wasn’t bad at boundaries; I was afraid of disappointing people or being seen as difficult or selfish.

3. My body held tension, fatigue, and anxiety long before I had words for it, even when my life looked “together.”

4. High-functioning still counts as struggling, even when no one else can see it, and I’m meeting every expectation.

5. I didn’t need to fall apart, hit rock bottom, or stop functioning to deserve support.

6. I wasn’t “too much.” I was trying to meet real needs in systems that didn’t make room for them.

7. Overworking wasn’t ambition or drive; it was a stress response keeping my nervous system in overdrive.

8. I didn’t have to earn care by being easy, agreeable, or low-need.

9. Being “low maintenance” didn’t make me resilient; it taught me how to disappear in my own life.

10. Slowing down wouldn’t make me irrelevant; it would make me more present, connected, and sustainable.

💬 Which one do you wish you’d known sooner?

02/11/2026

One thing I’ll be doing differently in 2026 as a high-achieving woman with anxiety is stopping romanticizing burnout.

Hustle culture taught us to push through exhaustion, explain our boundaries, and wait until we’re falling apart to ask for help.

I’m done with that.

Instead, I’m learning how to:�• notice stress early, before it becomes shutdown�• set boundaries without over-explaining or guilt�• regulate my nervous system without using productivity as a coping skill�• ask for support while I’m still functioning, not just when I’m drowning

High-functioning still counts as struggling.�Rest is a requirement, not a reward.�Support comes before burnout, not after.

If you’ve been holding it together on the outside while unraveling on the inside, I’ve been there. And I’m ready to help you find your way out of it.

🗓️ Book a consultation through the link in our bio. I am accepting clients in Nevada and Montana.

02/09/2026

Can I be honest with you for a second?

As high-achieving women, it’s easier to normalize struggle rather than confront it.

But at some point, I realized normalizing it wasn’t resilience, it was self-abandonment.

So here are the things I stopped normalizing as a high-achieving woman:

#1 Calling chronic jaw, shoulder, and stomach tension “just how my body is,” instead of recognizing it as a nervous system that’s been in survival mode for too long.

#2 Scheduling rest only after everything else is done, and then wondering why it never actually happens.

#3 Over-preparing, over-thinking, and over-functioning so nothing can go wrong, and mistaking control for safety.

#4 Filling every quiet moment with work, errands, or productivity so I don’t have to feel the discomfort that shows up when things slow down.

#5 Telling myself I don’t need support because I’m still functioning, even when functioning feels like dragging myself through the day.

#6 Feeling guilty when things feel easy, as if ease means I’m doing something wrong or not trying hard enough.

#7 Laughing off stress, making it sound light or manageable, because falling apart feels inconvenient and disruptive to everyone else.

#8 Waiting for a breaking point before admitting I need help, as if support is only justified in a full-blown crisis.

#9 Convincing myself it’s “not that bad” because I’m still performing well, measuring my wellness by output instead of capacity.

#10 Staying calm, composed, and regulated for everyone else, then crashing later in private and calling that normal.

👀 You don’t need to be falling apart to deserve support. I am now accepting clients in Nevada and Montana�Link in bio to book a consult.

02/06/2026

Emotional maturity ≠ emotional suppression.

Emotional suppression looks like:�– telling yourself you’re “fine” when you’re overwhelmed�– pushing emotions down so you can stay productive�– staying quiet to avoid conflict or inconvenience�– functioning well on the outside while feeling anxious or disconnected inside

It’s survival mode dressed up as strength.

Emotional maturity looks like:�– noticing your emotions without judging them�– letting yourself feel without being ruled by them�– communicating needs instead of swallowing them�– regulating your nervous system instead of overriding it

It’s not less emotion, it’s more capacity.

Growing emotionally doesn’t mean becoming serious, stiff, or dull.�It means you stop abandoning yourself just to keep everything running.

👀 If you found this post relatable, share it and send it to a friend who’s also taking care of their mental health.

02/04/2026

Can we all agree that as high-achieving women, we ignore what's best for us?

Here are 10 things I’ve ignored as a high-achieving woman who’s trying to better my mental health 👇🏼

1. The low-grade tension in my jaw, shoulders, and chest that I told myself was just “how I am.”

2. The guilt that surfaced anytime I wasn’t being useful, productive, or emotionally available to someone else.

3. How receiving help made me uncomfortable, not because I didn’t need it, but because I wasn’t used to being the one who needed support.

4. The loneliness that came with always being perceived as “the strong one,” capable, dependable, and rarely checked on.

5. How often I kept myself busy to avoid slowing down enough to feel what I was actually carrying.

6. The way I minimized my own needs was by telling myself that other people had it worse and used that as a reason to stay silent.

7. The internal pressure to hold it together, even when I was overwhelmed, depleted, or quietly unraveling.

8. How much of my identity was wrapped up in being capable, and how destabilizing it felt to imagine being anything else.

9. The moment pushing through stopped working… and how long I ignored that signal before I listened.

10. How deeply I equated being needed with being valued and how exhausting that made my relationships.

🌟 Save this if it feels familiar, and follow for support that goes deeper than coping.

02/03/2026

If you only feel okay when you’re busy, that’s not a regulated nervous system; that’s disconnection.

Here’s what regulation actually looks like:�• Noticing anxiety rise without immediately using productivity to make it disappear�• Staying in your body when discomfort shows up instead of numbing, scrolling, or overworking�• Pausing even briefly and choosing a response instead of reacting on autopilot

Regulation isn’t about calming down. It’s about having enough nervous system capacity to feel stress, emotion, or pressure without it running the show.

This is a skill. It’s learnable.�And it doesn’t require your life to slow down first.

Save this if you’re ready to build capacity instead of just coping.�🫶🏼Follow for support that actually helps.

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