116: Breaking the Addiction to Proving Yourself

What if the thing you’re most proud of… is actually the thing that’s exhausting you? High achievers don’t just achieve. They prove. Over and over and over again. In this episode, Carla and DocShellie Seyfarth call out the addiction to proving your worth and the quiet deal many of us made without realizing it: “If I perform enough, I’ll finally be enough.” But what happens when your worth becomes tied to output? Burnout. Resentment. A life built on conditions. This conversation breaks that contract wide open and asks a question that hits deep: Who would you be if you stopped trying to prove it?