039 When stress starts feeling like proof you're not cut out for this

Your brain reads a stress response the same way it reads a flagged issue in a brief: as something to investigate. So when your nervous system fires before a deposition or after tough feedback, your brain goes looking for what it means. What it finds usually sounds like this: this shouldn't be happening, other attorneys handle this better than I do.That interpretation isn't random. Law school taught you that not knowing is a liability. Practice taught you that struggle is risk. So your nervous system stopped distinguishing between needing to be competent and having any internal experience of difficulty. The two collapsed into one thing.This episode explains where that interpretation comes from, why it intensifies instead of resolving on its own, and what changes when you stop treating a stress response as evidence about your competence.The stress response was never the problem. What your brain decided it meant was.Want to understand what's driving the pattern in your own practice?Book a private 20-minute call at heathermillscoaching.com/call. We'll talk about what's driving your pattern and whether working together makes sense. Real conversation.Follow Heather on LinkedIn for weekly analysis of the patterns that keep high-performing attorneys stuck, and what actually changes them.Full Show Notes and Transcript:039 When stress starts feeling like proof you're not cut out for thishttps://www.heathermillscoaching.com/blog/039-when-stress-starts-feeling-like-proof-you-re-not-cut-out-for-this