Positive Intelligence, aka PQ, focuses on identifying and overcoming internal ‘saboteurs’ – so-called negative thought patterns that can interfere with success and wellbeing.
While this model resonates with many, it also presents critical limitations, particularly for individuals with histories of trauma, chronic stress, or unresolved inner conflict, and why real growth requires more than positivity.
You know the feeling. Not the dramatic collapse — the slow one.
The exhaustion you kept explaining away. The growing sense that something essential had gone quiet, even as everything on the outside looked fine.
Burnout is more than overwork. Here’s what’s actually underneath it — and how to start finding your way back to your Self.
For years I assumed the problem was fundamentally me.
The anxiety, the pain, the depression returning despite doing everything right.
It took a long time to find the right word for it. This piece is for anyone still looking. Trauma — here’s what it actually is — and why understanding it changes everything.