You’re doing the work.
You’re holding the space.
You’re keeping the room calm—even when your world is anything but.
But behind the composure, there’s a cost.
Because when you’re constantly adapting to other people’s chaos…
You start to disappear in your own life.
In this episode of Unlearning Stress with Mischelle, we’re naming what most leadership spaces ignore:
Emotional inconsistency isn’t just frustrating. It’s exhausting.
And it’s one of the most overlooked causes of the burnout, doubt, and erasure so many women are silently navigating.
You’ll learn:
- Why shape-shifting to survive leadership chaos drains your clarity
- How inconsistency creates internal instability—even for high-performers
- What it really means to lead without losing yourself
- And how to begin reclaiming your emotional center in a world that keeps shifting the rules
You’re not overreacting. You’re functioning in a world that keeps pulling the ground out from under you.
This is your call to anchor.
Don’t miss the companion article: The End of Jekyll & Hyde Leadership
https://open.substack.com/pub/mischelleoneal/p/the-end-of-jekyll-and-hyde-leadership
Join me LIVE this Thursday between 11 and 1 for The Unlearning Break-Time Live™
https://www.youtube.com/@MischelleONeal
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