You cannot apply someone else’s template to a body that has only known survival
+ why overwhelm isn't just a you problem
Mariah Mueller
Jan 16, 2026
The overwhelm isn’t just a you problem
If you’re a human existing right now, you’re probably a little bit like WHAT THE F*CK IS HAPPENING. Valid question!!!
And if you’re an entrepreneur, your feed is probably filled with:
Sales courses
10-step funnels
“Simple” six-month content batching strategies
Masterclasses promising manifesting your highest cash month
And if you’re a mom, your feed is probably filled with:
Why kids shouldn’t eat sugar EVER
Why screen time will destroy your kids brain
How to sleep 15 hours through the night
These things and the people behind them are not (I hope) bad. We all find medicine in different places and when something resonates in a new way it can change the trajectory of your life.
And if you’ve consumed all of the information and still feel overwhelmed, resentful, and on the precipice of burnout - it might just be a signal to return to nature; your body, your truth, and your LIVED experience.
I’m going to name something uncomfortable.
I am soul-level tired of being sold to by people who already have all of their basic needs met (and then some). I cannot ignore how trauma, poverty, caregiving, and learned survival skills have shaped MY body’s relationship to money.
I grew up believing:
Money ruins people
Wealth destroys relationships
Safety comes from overworking, pushing through, earning your place
Approval equals worth
And from my highest self to you - you cannot apply someone else’s template to a body that has just known survival (versus safety and stability).
My invitation to rebel
In the last 9 months of building my business rebelliously I’ve learned this:
I cannot force my body into expansion.
I cannot manifest my way past beliefs that were formed to keep me alive.
I cannot build a business that requires me to ignore the fact that I have children, a body, and a nervous system.
That’s how resentment is born and baby I have tried that coat on - it’s HEAVYYYYY!
What I’m Choosing Instead
I am not trying to create a life void of discomfort and hardships. I’m also not interested in attaching the stories of hardship like armor to “keep me safe” because my life becomes what I believe and I know how powerful that is!!
I am choosing to rewire my beliefs about my worth. I am practicing having the hard conversations when something doesn’t align. I am detaching my identity from the people who will only ever see me as who I have been. I am explaining myself less and less.
For my business that means I am choosing:
To do work that feels safe to receive now
To set rates that honor my capacity now
Saying yes to clients who only know the version of me that doesn’t perform worthiness
To focus on being rather than doing
Because I don’t want to get rich quick and then crash. I don’t want to blow up my boundaries in the face of a really good offer. I don’t want to abandon myself and my family for perceived “success”. Noooo ma’am, we are in an era of balancing the masculine and feminine in each of us. That means we can be soft, sweet, and CRYSTAL CLEAR with our boundaries. Relaxed, rested and RICH.
Final Truth
You are worthy as you are!!! Not just when someone else tells you you did great, or when they love your post, or when you go viral. Not when your income hits a certain number. Not when everyone is happy with your work.
Right f*cking now. In THIS body.
And that is the foundation that we’re scaling from my dear.
