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If you resonated with last week’s article on overwhelm, this might explain why  it feels so relentless. Because for many women, overwhelm isn’t caused by one big thing. It's created by the mental load  they carry every single day. What is mental load? Mental load is the invisible work of remembering, anticipating, planning, organising and holding responsibility , often for everyone else. It’s: Keeping track of school things - semester dates, events, forms, uniforms, library b

From the outside, life might look “fine”. You're functioning. You're showing up. You’re getting things done. And yet inside you feel overwhelmed, stretched thin, and quietly exhausted. It's not failing. It's a nervous system that cannot cope anymore, it's you carrying far more than any women is meant to. It's the invisible mental load. Life can be so full and overloaded, we don't even give ourselves a minute to realise. Most women I speak with in my 1:1 or women's circle are