The Identity Underneath the Title

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not show up in bloodwork.

It does not register on a burnout assessment. It is the fatigue of being someone who no longer quite fits.

When a woman has spent two decades building a career, she often discovers that the title was never the destination — it was a container. And containers, when full, require something new.

The container has stopped being the same size as the woman inside it. She has grown. The container has not.