“your body is wise and it's acting the way it's acting because it's trying to tell you something there's a message there that you haven't been able to hear because you've been too busy shoving it away and trying to own up to some imagined ideal of how you're supposed to be”

Stop performing an imagined ideal of how you should be

Perfectionism is a constant act of suppressing signal. The 'imagined ideal of how you're supposed to be' is the founder script — always shipping, always positive, always in control. Every feeling that doesn't match gets shoved down, and the body keeps the receipt. Listening is cheaper than the eventual breakdown.