Episode 16: Why We’re Always “On,” & How to Finally Turn Off!

Title: Buzzsprout Why You’re Always “On” — and How to Finally Turn Off

So many of us are exhausted not because we’re doing too much — but because we’re sharing in spaces that were never meant to hold us.

In this episode of Cut 2 the Chase at 8, we explore how emotional overextension, constant availability, and wearing invisible masks slowly train us to live in survival mode. We talk about what happens when we give our energy, vulnerability, and emotional labor to environments, systems, jobs, relationships, and audiences that were never designed to carry our full humanity.

This conversation gently examines:

• why being “strong” often means being silently overburdened
• how emotional masking becomes a learned survival skill
• where endurance gets mistaken for purpose
• and how discernment helps us stop sharing in unsafe or unreciprocal spaces

Through lived experience and cultural reflection, this episode invites you to pause, breathe, and begin laying down what was never yours to carry.

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