Everyone has that person in their life – the one who never seems to fall apart, who handles every crisis with calm competence, who somehow always has the right words and the emotional bandwidth to ...

Somewhere around age thirty-five, the role calcifies. You didn’t audition for it. You didn’t even notice the exact moment it happened. But at some point, without a vote being called, you became the ...

Being the strong one sounds like a compliment, but over time, it can become a role that's hard to step out of. When a woman is always the reliable one, the fixer, or the person everyone leans on, she ...

Social constructs of strength put a lot of pressure on people to constantly perform at their highest degree of ability, even when they might be under the influence of extreme emotional stressors.

She’s the calm in the crisis, the dependable one. She picks up slack before it becomes a problem and shows up fully, even when she’s running on empty. She keeps the calendar, remembers the birthdays, ...