Hey, it's Michelle here. Quick question before we jump into today's episode. Let me guess.

Are you the strong one? Are you like the steady one, the one that everyone leans on?

Maybe on the inside, though, life feels like it's pretty hard. You might have a hard time expressing

yourself all the thoughts and the opinions and the ideas that you have, but never quite make it

out. Maybe you struggle to

take action, even when you know what you need to do. Or maybe you feel tired in a way that's really

hard to explain. You're holding everything together for everyone around you and people tell you

they admire how strong you are, but nobody really sees what

it costs you. And if any of that lands, maybe you've thought to yourself, well, like, that's just

how I am. But here's what's actually going on. When you were a child and something overwhelmed

your nervous system, your body, your body adapted, your nervous system

built a defense against that overwhelm. And over time, that defense became a habit,

and then that habit became a pattern. And what we think of as our personality is so often

just this old pattern running the show. So there are five different capacity patterns.

And they're not personality types like the Enneagram or the Myers-Briggs. These actually describe

the specific safety strategy that your nervous system defaults to anytime you're feeling stressed

or overwhelmed or maxed out at capacity.

They don't describe who you are so much as they describe what's blocking who you are.

And once you know your pattern, you guys, you can actually do something about it.

So if you haven't yet, go and take my free What's Your Capacity Pattern Quiz. It's just a couple

minutes and once you get your quiz results, you'll be invited to listen to a free private

podcast all about your capacity pattern. The link is in the show notes or you can head on over

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