This Seems Personal

society, culture, personal, journals · EN-US

This Seems Personal is not a perfectly packaged self-help space. It's me, Leigh Gall, telling the truth in real time and saying the things most of us are too scared to say out loud. I'm done hiding, done performing, done pretending any of us have it all together. This is for anyone who has ever worn a mask in their own life. The overthinkers. The achievers. The people pleasers. The ones who read every room, anticipate every need, and still feel disconnected from themselves even when everything looks fine on the outside. If you've ever wondered whether everyone else is faking it too, you're not alone, and you're in the right place. Here's what I keep coming back to. Your brain is a keep-you-alive machine running on outdated software. So we overthink. We over-function. We abandon ourselves without ever noticing, because by now it's as easy as breathing. We ran these survival responses so many times they stopped being reactions and became who