Finding Steady ::

Monthly Gathering for Women

Why We Self-Abandon

(and How to Break the Cycle)

For the woman who is always steady for everyone… except herself.

August 25, 2026 | 4 PM CDT

Why hello there, Pretty! Let's just cut right to the chase!

You didn't wake up one day and decide to disappear from your own life. It happened slowly. One "I'm fine" at a time. One meeting you didn't need to attend, one need you swallowed, one time you said yes when your whole body screamed no.

And now here you are. Managing everyone. Everything. All of it. While the truest parts of you sit quietly on a shelf, waiting for a "someday" to take care of yourself that never quite comes.

That's not weakness, Sister. That is self-abandonment. And it's the quiet epidemic running underneath the lives of the strongest women I know.

In this free, no-fluff Finding Steady gathering, we're going to name it, understand it, and start the real work of breaking the cycle.

We'll explore:

  • What self-abandonment actually is (and why it hides so well behind "being strong")
  • The moment you learned it was safer to disappear than to have needs (or God forbid: desires!)
  • Why willpower was never going to fix this
  • What your body already knows that your mind keeps overriding
  • One grounded, doable next step back to yourself

This isn't a lecture, nor 10 steps to enlightenment: It's an hour of raw diamond truth, together, from your living room to mine.