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Caitlin Clarke is a mindfulness-based somatic life and career coach for highly sensitive, ambitious women who want to trust themselves more and take up space in their own lives. Sign up for her free newsletter with tips for saying buh-bye to burnout and staying true to you at her website, www.caitlinclarke.com.

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How I Broke Free from My Toxic Need to Achieve

“If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.” ~ Ivan Nuru

“Honey, we’re gonna call you an ambulance.”

The woman on the other end of the phone at the hospital call center sounded stern as I lay on my bathroom floor in my robe, writhing in pain, barely able to speak.

I never knew you could hyperventilate from pain, I remember thinking.

It was December, and I’d just returned home from a stressful international work trip with jet lag and exhaustion as my souvenirs. The sensitive, introverted parts of myself I normally shoved under the …