Laying The Over Functioning Woman To Rest
- Liz Coucean
- Mar 29
- 3 min read

You know her well.
The woman who needs to feel in control.
The one who anticipates every need before it's spoken, who keeps her relationship, career, home, and the emotions of others running smoothly.
She's the one who doesn’t just handle it all—she excels at it, because she can.
She's likely been taught to care-take from a very young age.
Wired to prove her self and her worth in order to receive love and praise.
She’s hyper-capable....a woman people depend on!
How exactly does an over functioning woman show up in her relationship to a man?
Care-taking his feelings... over explaining... teaching him... coaching him... taking the lead in decision making... suppressing her feelings to "protect" him... micromanaging him... mothering him... emasculating him... All of which affects your estrogen levels.
Slowly, she becomes separated from her eros, succulence, deep pleasure, and joy.
Stress-induced estrogen depletion strips a woman of her vibrant energy—leaving her less connected to the deep receptivity and eros that make her burst with vitality and magnetism.
No matter how much she does, the weight never lifts.
She doesn’t know another way.
Over functioning is not just about ‘being busy’—it’s primal, physiological, and deeply wired into your nervous system.
A woman who cannot receive—who has spent her life over-thinking, over-giving, over-efforting, and over-managing—is a woman whose body is operating in constant output. And the body keeps score.
🥀 Cortisol floods the system—keeping you in fight-or-flight, draining your adrenals, disrupting your sleep and your hormones.
🥀 Estrogen and progesterone take a hit—leading to irregular cycles, painful PMS, infertility, or emotional numbness in the womb space.
🥀 Oxytocin—the hormone of bonding and trust—dips, making it harder to soften in relationships, connect deeply, and let yourself be held.
🥀 Tension builds up in the jaw, shoulders, and hips because your nervous system has been conditioned to hold everything together no matter what.
This doesn’t just affect your health—it shapes your entire life.
You crave a man who leads, but when he tries, you micromanage, correct, and end up doing it yourself.
You desire ease in your career, but ease feels foreign—so you overwork, and over-give.
You dream of deep pleasure, but your body is too wired for survival to surrender into it.
This is what happens when a woman is stuck in perpetual output (penetrative, masculine energy).
She loses touch with her most powerful and organic state: being and receiving.
Your Body Was Designed to Hold More—But Not Like This
A woman's biology thrives in cycles—surging and softening, expansion and restoration, leadership and surrender.
When a woman reclaims the ability to receive, everything changes.
🌹 Her womb softens—hormones regulate, pleasure deepens, and creativity flows.
🌹 Her relationships shift—she allows herself to be led, cherished, and adored.
🌹 Her nervous system recalibrates—stress clears, energy returns, and she holds more with ease.
🌹 Her business expands—not through overworking, but through pure energetic magnetism.
This shift doesn’t happen by thinking about it.
It happens in the body. In the nervous system. In the deep, cellular-level rewiring of how you hold power, how you trust yourself, and how you allow life to move through you.
This isn't about knowledge (because everything I have shared here, you already know). It's about embodiment.
Not another mindset shift.
Not another layer of "doing".
But an energetic restructuring and re-patterning of how you move through life.
I don’t teach "strategies" in my mentorships, and the results of healed, thriving, passionate relationships and careers my clients experience by touching the deeper thing—are 💋 chef's kiss.
It’s time to lay the over-functioning woman to rest.


