If you're a high-achieving Black woman, there's a good chance asking for help feels harder than doing it all yourself. Maybe you've been called "the strong one" so many times that it stopped feeling like a compliment and started feeling like a job description. Somewhere along the way, strong Black woman burnout crept in. This might look like exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix, irritability you hide, the sense that if you stop holding everything up, it will all fall apart. Let's talk about why asking for help is so hard, and what it can look like to start putting some of the weight down.