Wired, Tired, and Still Performing: Why Capable People Get Stuck in Survival Mode and How to Find Their Way Back to Ease

By Lara Glay

You are getting everything done. Why does your body still feel like an emergency?

Some people do not collapse when they are overwhelmed. They become more useful. They answer faster, carry more, plan further ahead, and call exhaustion ambition.

Wired, Tired, and Still Performing is for the capable person whose life looks fine from the outside but feels braced on the inside. Through vivid stories, clear explanations, and compassionate insight, LARA GLAY reveals how urgency can become an identity, why weekends fail to restore you, how shutdown can hide beneath productivity, and why rest often feels unsafe rather than refreshing.

Inside, you will discover:
Why competence can conceal chronic stress
How perfectionism, overcommitment, and emotional vigilance feed one another
Why numbness and procrastination may be forms of overload, not laziness
How to create steadier days without abandoning ambition
What genuine restoration looks like when quick fixes stop working

This is not a demand to become less driven. It is an invitation to stop using alarm as your only source of energy.

You do not need to earn ease by finally finishing everything. You can begin building it now.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFKCN634
• ISBN13: 9798193307167
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"