Eaten By Love: Why It Feels Wrong When Things Get Easier

"Eaten by Love: Why It Feels Wrong When Things Get Easier" is a reflection by Adela Baker, ADHD coach and founder of Mind Coach, LLC in New Orleans, written after a scuba diving encounter with a mother octopus in the northern Adriatic. Using the octopus's biological sacrifice as a mirror, the post explores the difference between destiny and choice, and questions why martyrdom, whether in motherhood or in work, is so often treated as the price of love rather than one option among many. A client story illustrates what changes when a driven professional stops performing productivity and starts choosing it. The piece speaks to Turbo Thinkers® navigating self-imposed pressure, negative self-talk, and the guilt that can surface when success starts to feel easier than it "should."