Many of us are taught to seek validation externally, to look outside of ourselves for answers, often relying on others’ opinions to guide our choices and actions.

One of the most draining experiences is continually associating our sense of worthiness to external opinions, achievements and benchmarks, whether they be others’ perceptions or standards of perfection.

Consequently, we lose sight of ourselves—our likes, desires, and essence.

Brené Brown aptly captured this struggle:

“One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying ‘yes’ when we mean ‘no,’ and saying ‘no’ when we mean ‘hell yes.’ I spent a lot of my life saying yes all the time and then being pissed off and resentful.” 

It’s a cycle of constant giving, of exhausting all our time, energy, and love for others while neglecting our own needs. The consequences are profound:

• First stress and burnout take over.

• Next, resentment and bitterness creeps in

• And then we lose our sense of self as our needs and inner longings have been ignored or pushed aside for too long.

This is when we feel empty, and lost and scattered.

Let’s learn to slide into the awesome human that we are and remind ourselves its safe to BE. 

In this workshop, we will share space to shed this good girl syndrome and everything that it has brought to us: loss of self, unhealthy perfectionism, constant never enough feeling, and reflexive people pleasing.