55: For the Woman Who Manages Everything: Why Trust Feels Like a Risk

In this episode, Dr. Brook explores a pattern that shows up far beyond physical health: the instinct to chase certainty by forcing control over symptoms, schedules, relationships, and even rest. Building on the symptom chasing conversation from episode 53, she widens the lens to show how this same instinct drives overworking, overscheduling, obsessively checking bank accounts or social media, and rereading texts before sending them. Underneath every version of this behavior is the same root cause, the discomfort of not knowing, and the belief that forcing an outcome is safer than trusting the process. Dr. Brook shares her own story of learning to trust her body's pace instead of forcing it into someone else's timeline, along with a client story about a woman whose exhaustion came not from her workload but from the effort of controlling every detail of her life. The episode brings in Proverbs 3:5-6 to explore how leaning on our own understanding can quietly replace trust in God, even when we don't consciously intend it to. Dr. Brook offers a practical BodyOS reframe for noticing when you're forcing instead of trusting, walking through how to pause, ask whether the urge is coming from need or fear, identify which pillar physical, spiritual, emotional, or mental is driving the urge to control, and adjust only where it's truly needed. She closes with a challenge to pick one area of chasing and practice leaving it alone for twenty four hours to see what comes up. Listeners are invited to take the Body Signal Decoder assessment to start identifying where they are forcing instead of trusting. ✨ Your body has been trying to tell you something. Find out what it's saying with the free 30-second **Body Signal Decoder Assessment.** Pick your signal, get your personalized guide straight to your inbox, and finally start making sense of what's going on inside. **Get it here:** os.drbrooksheehan.com/decoder 🎧 And if you caught the mention of the **Talk to Me, Body** affirmation card deck during the episode, here's where to grab yours. 63 scripture-anchored cards to help you trust the body God designed for you. **Get yours here:** drbrooksheehan.com/talk-to-me-body/ 📱 Come say hi on Instagram: @drbrooksheehan ⭐ If this episode spoke to you, **would you take a second to leave a five-star review on** Apple **or** Spotify**?** It helps more women find this show. And more women learning to listen to their bodies is exactly why I do this.