About Dr. Tanya B | Overcome Disappointment, Cultivate Confidence, Embody Transformation
You're capable, accomplished, and holding everything together. And something underneath all of that isn't sitting right.
Excuse the Interruption is a weekly show where Dr. Tanya Berfield reads directly from her Prescription Pad Substack, naming the invisible patterns and identity bargains keeping capable women stuck. Warm, precise, occasionally irreverent.
New episodes weekly. The somatic practice that goes with each one is waiting for you at Prescription Pad on Substack. https://substack.com/@drtanyaberfield
There's a puppy in Tanya's house named Bowen. He isdelightful, chaotic, and completely his project, not hers. And holding that line, even when it's uncomfortable, even when someone has thoughts about it, is teaching her something she didn't expect.
This week's episode is about what actually shows up on theother side of stopping. Not the victory lap version. The Tuesday afternoonversion, where you held the boundary, didn't apologize for it, and noticed something unfamiliar in the space where the managing used to be.
Quiet. Not empty. Quiet.
Tanya also gets into the people in her life who have a lotof thoughts about how she's doing things now, and why she's genuinely okay with that in a way she couldn't have been before.
If you can see the pattern but can't quite putit down yet, this one is for you.
Masterclass October 21st: www.DrTanyaB.com/masterclass
12 Oct 2026
You Put It Down. Nobody Picked It Up. (And That's the Work.)
There are two unfinished projects in my backyard.
They've been there since June. My husband is a literal handyman, which means our house projects sit at the very bottom of a very long professional priority list, and I have spent years being the one who quietly moved them up his anyway.
Not this time.
The old version of me would have found the contractor by now. Made the calls. Managed the whole thing to completion and said nothing useful about any of it, because saying something useful would have required admitting I was doing it again. Taking over. Filling the gap. Making it work so nobody had to feel the discomfort of it not working.
The projects are still sitting there.
And something else happened while I was stewing about it.
I planned a trip. Not his trip. Mine. Told him he was welcome to come, it wasn't a beach, and he didn't get to complain about a single damn thing. He said yes enthusiastically and gave me ideas about what he'd like to do. And what I realized in that moment stopped me cold.
I had been solving for a problem he wasn't even having.
That's what this episode is about. Not the projects. Not the trip. The pattern underneath both of them. And what rewiring it actually looks like on a Tuesday afternoon when it's not triumphant, not clean, just holding.
Let's get into it.
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5 Oct 2026
Ep. 97 How Capable Became a Survival Strategy
You didn't choose to become the one who holds it all together. You just got very good at it, and somewhere along the way, that version of you started feeling like the real you.
In this episode, Dr. Tanya Berfield gets personal about the quiet, uncomfortable work of recognizing an identity you built around what the room needed from you, and what it costs when the room stays the same but you don't. She talks about navigating grown kids, changing family dynamics, a mother who still calls to tell her what to do, and the particular exhaustion that comes not from doing too much but from managing yourself so efficiently around everyone else that you've lost track of what you actually need.
This isn't burnout as a deficiency. It's burnout as a message. And the starting point isn't a strategy. It's seeing the contract clearly enough to know it was built, not born.
If you've ever said yes before your brain joined the meeting, stayed in a dynamic longer than it deserved, or felt guilty after a perfectly reasonable boundary, this one is for you.
Subscribe on Substack for the full written essay and the accompanying somatic audio practice. https://substack.com/@drtanyaberfield
Masterclass: https://www.drtanyab.com/masterclass
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