You can handle more than you think. Look at your life: you’ve been handling it this whole time.

Capacity is hard to see from the inside, because handling things is invisible while you are doing it. The evidence is not in how you feel, it is in the fact that the week got covered, the shifts got worked, the people who rely on you were not dropped. You underestimate yourself partly because none of that came with any acknowledgment. Doubt is about the future, while the record is about what already happened.

When the next thing looks too big, take stock of what you are carrying without noticing. Say it out loud if that helps. Then decide from the record rather than from the fear.