Healing isn’t a performance, and mastery isn’t a checklist. Ashleigh Henry explores what it means to inhabit the work — not just understand it, speak to it, or sell it. It’s for the woman who’s done the trainings, knows the language, but still finds herself over-giving, self-abandoning, or quietly aching for a life that actually feels like hers.

If you’ve ever felt the dissonance between what you teach and how you live, this is a call back to rhythm, presence, and realignment. Less about doing the work perfectly — more about living it honestly.

Ashleigh Henry, founder of The Cheetah Company, shares when there was a time when “more” felt like oxygen — more achievement, more clarity, more healing, more doing it right. But chasing it left her fragmented. This reflection traces the invisible addiction many high-capacity women carry: the compulsion toward betterment that masquerades as growth but quietly erodes our peace.

For anyone who’s felt burned out by their own hunger, this essay offers a pause — a place to name the ache beneath the ambition and ask a more honest question: what if more isn’t the answer? What if you were already enough, long before the reaching?