A workbook for women who have been holding everything together for everyone else.
You have been called capable your whole life. Reliable. Strong. The one who handles things. All of it is true, and none of it reaches who you actually are. Those words describe what you do. Somewhere along the way, the doing became the only language you had left for the being.
This workbook is the work of taking your authority back. Across seven parts, you move underneath the roles and the reliability to find what you would want, say, refuse, and become if you trusted yourself to know. It won’t teach you to do less. You already know how. What it does is remind you that your authority over your own life was never something you had to earn by staying useful. It is already yours.
Inside are 78 pages of guided reflection and real-life exercises, drawn from evidence-based frameworks and each named where it is used: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, and the Window of Tolerance.
The seven parts: Who you are underneath the doing · What your body has been telling you · The cost of holding it all · Rest is not a reward · Taking the authority back · The voice you have not used · Belonging without abandoning yourself.
Move at your own pace. There is no finish line here, only contact with what is true for you, in this season, in this body.
Created by Lisa Cummings, LCSW · Wild Hearts Collective
A workbook for women who have been holding everything together for everyone else.
You have been called capable your whole life. Reliable. Strong. The one who handles things. All of it is true, and none of it reaches who you actually are. Those words describe what you do. Somewhere along the way, the doing became the only language you had left for the being.
This workbook is the work of taking your authority back. Across seven parts, you move underneath the roles and the reliability to find what you would want, say, refuse, and become if you trusted yourself to know. It won’t teach you to do less. You already know how. What it does is remind you that your authority over your own life was never something you had to earn by staying useful. It is already yours.
Inside are 78 pages of guided reflection and real-life exercises, drawn from evidence-based frameworks and each named where it is used: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, and the Window of Tolerance.
The seven parts: Who you are underneath the doing · What your body has been telling you · The cost of holding it all · Rest is not a reward · Taking the authority back · The voice you have not used · Belonging without abandoning yourself.
Move at your own pace. There is no finish line here, only contact with what is true for you, in this season, in this body.
Created by Lisa Cummings, LCSW · Wild Hearts Collective
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