Lorissa spent months trying to optimize every minute, and right before her birthday her body just quit. For the first time in her life she could not power through, and it cracked something open.

This is the monthly catch-up. Two kid birthdays, an anniversary, turning 35, and a real reckoning with where your worth actually comes from, plus a back-to-back run of going viral that turned into a test of handling hate online.

What We Cover

→ The epiphany that hit when being optimized started costing Lorissa the parts of life she actually wanted

→ Why she had to untangle her sense of worth from the number on her paycheck, and the exercise that helped her do it

→ What Alex does the second a hateful comment lands in her nervous system, plus the tool Lorissa swears by for the feelings logic cannot talk  ...