When Your Own Presence Feels Like Home: Letting Yourself Be Seen, Supported, and Loved

Many sensitive, capable women mistake self-evaluation for self-awareness.

They have spent so long looking at themselves through a harsh inner lens that they don’t always notice how much energy it takes and how deeply it affects the way they relate, work, and allow themselves to be seen.

There is a big difference between being attuned to yourself and constantly evaluating yourself.

Especially for growth-oriented high-achieving women what looks like self-awareness is often self-evaluation in disguise. … Continue readingWhen Your Own Presence Feels Like Home: Letting Yourself Be Seen, Supported, and Loved

A new map for love, support, and receiving

Many sensitive women don’t realize they’re relating to love, support, and success through a very old nervous system map. 

A map that was created when they were too young to know that the level of care they received wasn’t necessarily the level that is available to them now.

If your early experience involved inconsistency, emotional unavailability, or carrying more than a child should have to carry, a younger part have learned: maybe this is as good as it gets.

That experience isn’t only a belief, it lives in your body as a felt sense of what life allows. … Continue readingA new map for love, support, and receiving

When you want more, but a part of you doesn’t feel safe yet

You want more from your life. More love, intimacy, support, more space for your work to grow and be recognized.

But what usually happens somewhere along the way is that the wanting slowly turns into pressure and panic.

Suddenly the same woman who felt inspired a week ago is lying on the couch exhausted, avoiding messages, doubting herself, procrastinating, or wanting to disappear somewhere where she doesn’t have to face life for a while.

One of the most common things I see in capable women is this cycle of expansion (you can envision, feel, almost touch what you want) followed by collapse. … Continue readingWhen you want more, but a part of you doesn’t feel safe yet