How I Broke Free from My Toxic Need to Achieve
âIf itâs out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.â ~ Ivan Nuru
âHoney, weâre gonna call you an ambulance.â
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 Iâd 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 …