Knowing Your Limits: How to Understand and Protect Your Capacity for Stress

You can tell when you’ve hit your limit even if you pretend you haven’t.

You start snapping at small things. Your sleep gets shallow. Everything feels like too much — but you keep going anyway.

Because that’s what capable women do, right?

Until your body or mind forces a pause.

High-functioning women often carry invisible burnout. From the outside, you’re holding it together. Inside, you’re running on fumes.

Therapy helps you learn the truth your nervous system has been whispering for months: you’re at capacity.

What “Capacity” Really Means

Your stress threshold isn’t about weakness — it’s about wiring.

When your body stays in fight-or-flight for too long, your resilience starts to erode.

With Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, you can start to notice your early warning signs and reset before you break down.

Here’s what that can look like:

• Mindfulness: Notice the tension before it becomes pain.

• Emotion regulation: Label the feeling — not just the reaction.

• Distress tolerance: Learn grounding tools for when stress peaks.

You don’t have to white-knuckle your way through life.

At HML Wellness Solutions, we offer affordable therapy services for stress and anxiety in Prince George, designed to help you rebuild balance without guilt.

Our therapists guide you to recognize your patterns, pace your energy, and stop measuring your worth by productivity.

You are allowed to rest before you crash. And if you’ve forgotten how therapy can remind you.

About HML Wellness Solutions

At HML Wellness Solutions, we provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy for adults navigating anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic stress, and life transitions. Based in Prince George, BC, we offer both in-person and secure online counselling across British Columbia—making therapy accessible no matter where you are.