Dear Overwhelmed Woman - Are You a High-Functioning Woman?
I spent years waiting to be rescued. By a man. By a breakthrough. By God showing up in a way I could finally feel. He never sent a rescuer. He sent something better.
But I didn’t know that yet.
What I knew was that I was tired. Not sleepy tired. The kind of tired that lives in your bones when you’ve been carrying everything for everyone for so long that you don’t even remember what it felt like to put it down.
And there was this quiet thought I never said out loud: maybe someone will come and make this easier.
So I kept waiting. And the people who showed up? They needed help too. Every single one of them.
That’s when I had to face the thing I’d been avoiding. Nobody was coming. Not a man. Not a ministry. Nobody.
And that realization broke something in me. Because the moment I stopped looking outside for what only God could give me inside, something shifted. I stopped performing. I stopped people-pleasing. I stopped building my whole life around a wound I hadn’t even named yet.
I came back to God for the real things. Clarity on who I actually was. Peace that didn’t depend on anyone staying. A sense of direction that came from Him, not from whoever was in the room. An identity that wasn’t built on what I’d survived.
If you’re tired of being the strong one, listen. There is another way to live. And it doesn’t start with finding the right person. It starts with coming back to yourself.
If this found you at the right time, you’re exactly who I create for.
“Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28
With Love,
Ayo
www.thrivewithayo.com
