The Cost of Capable
Verena Rizg · 2026
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Built from sixteen years of clinical practice, The Cost of Capable™ names what Verena Rizg has watched her patients carry in silence — the high performers no one thinks to worry about, the ones even providers assume are fine, the ones whose minds and bodies pay the cost no one is counting. There is a cost to being the one who is praised for how much they carry, and never asked what it costs. The clinician who carries everyone else's pain. The leader trusted with the work no one names. The mother whose competence is read as limitless. The migrant's child for whom belonging has always been contingent on performance. Not all high performance is built the same way. Some arrive at capability through ambition. Others arrive at it through survival — bracing against environments where access, safety, or belonging were not consistently given. The outcome can look identical. The cost is not.
Book details
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Axia Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 64
- ISBN
- 9781067911805
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