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

Letting Yourself Be Seen by the Right People and Opportunities 

I see so many kind, empathic, ambitious women waiting to be chosen by people who were never truly available for them.

Over time, this teaches their nervous system that love must be earned through patience, being overly understanding, or making themselves smaller. 

And often, that same pattern is showing up in their work too, where they feel like they constantly have to prove that they and their skills are enough instead of them being naturally recognized, appreciated and valued. … Continue readingLetting Yourself Be Seen by the Right People and Opportunities