Notifications
Your ability to filter incoming inputs — choosing what deserves your attention and what can wait.
The Custody Mother and the Question of Good Enough
Notifications here represents the constant incoming signals from people around her — the judgments, the 'you made a wrong decision' messages — that were pulling her attention away from her own internal read. The caller had her Notifications turned up so high that other people's opinions were drowning out her own sense of the situation. She was letting unsolicited verdicts from outsiders register as important alerts worth responding to, when most of them deserved to be filtered out entirely.