Episode Details

You ever notice how much energy you spend worrying about things you can't control? The future. Other people's opinions. The economy. The weather. Whether that text you sent was interpreted the right way. Whether the meeting tomorrow will go well. Whether the people you love are safe and happy and okay. Whether the world is falling apart in ways you can see and ways you can't. You carry all of it — every worry, every concern, every what-if, every imagined catastrophe — in your body. In your jaw. In your shoulders. In the tightness around your eyes. In the fist you didn't realize you were making. In the shallow breath you've been taking for hours without noticing. In the knot in your stomach that never quite goes away, no matter how much you eat or how little you stress — which is never. I used to think caring meant clenching.