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The Brain Wipes

You can’t take "Head of Sales" to therapy


Welcome to Human Doings Anonymous.

“Hi, I’m Deborah. And I used to believe my job title was my entire personality.”
[Everyone claps supportively.]

Let’s be honest. Most of us wouldn’t know how to introduce ourselves without saying what we do.

“I’m a [insert job title here]”
“I work in [insert industry]”
“I’m a coach/manager/CEO/freelancer/full-time-overachiever trying to hold it all together.”

But what happens when the job shifts?
When the title gets stripped?
When you burn out, get made redundant, take a break, have a baby, move countries, or just… decide you want something different?

Suddenly it feels like there’s a hole where your worth used to be.

And that, my friend, is when you realise:
🔥 You weren’t working a job.
🔥 You were building your identity on a LinkedIn headline.

I get it. We were raised in a world where productivity = value, output = identity, and titles = respect. So we chase the next promotion or hustle harder—because who are we without the badge?

But here’s the truth:
Your job is what you do.
It is not who you are.

If your entire sense of self disappears the moment your calendar clears, you don’t need a new planner.
You need a new relationship with yourself.

So welcome to Human Doings Anonymous.
We’re learning how to stop performing worthiness.
And start remembering who the hell we are without a to-do list.

You in?

Love,
Déborah
Recovering high achiever.
Human. Still.

P.S. If your job title was “Mum” (or "Dad") and the kids grew up…
You’re welcome here too.

The Brain Wipes

I don’t teach brand-new ideas: I make the best ones finally click. I simplify what others have already figured out—minus the fluff, the jargon, and the overthinking. Burnout, grief, decision-making, emotional bandwidth, capacity and better relationships… all made simple and a little bit sassy.(Okay fine, sometimes I do teach brand-new ideas. Boom.)

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