Nicolette van Bree-Green Nicolette van Bree-Green

Busy, Busy, Busy.

You don’t stay busy because you’re disorganised.
You stay busy because your nervous system learned early that doing equals safety.

That’s not dramatic.
It’s adaptive.

For a system shaped by uncertainty, responsibility, or the need to stay alert, stillness isn’t rest.
It’s exposure.

When nothing is happening, there’s no distraction.
No buffer.
No external anchor.

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Nicolette van Bree-Green Nicolette van Bree-Green

F*ck the rules

You’ve been praised for how much you can handle.
How well you multitask.
How calmly you hold it all together.

And because you can cope —
you keep coping.

You say you’re fine.
You squeeze more into days that are already full.
You push through pain, tension, stress — because that’s what you’ve always done.

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