Real psychology for real life, in sixty minutes
Expert-led workshops on the habits that cost capable women the most. Each one includes three months’ access to the recording.
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What you get: a 60-minute expert-led workshop, and three months’ access to the recording.
Holding it together at work, falling apart at homeManaging emotional bandwidth and the invisible workload
This has come from a good place: from kindness, compassion, empathy, intelligence and survival. You learned early that reading the room and adapting kept things okay. It was helpful then. It’s exhausting now. This workshop shows you how to stop absorbing everything that isn’t yours, so you only have your own to manage.
It addresses why you feel so angry with the ones you love the most. You feel the shift in a room before anyone has said a word. You clock your partner’s mood the second they walk in, or the kind of day the kids have had as soon as you see them at pick-up. You don’t just see feelings. You absorb them, and you end up doing the emotional labour no one else can even name. You’re steadying everyone else. Nobody’s steadying you.
In this workshop, you’ll learn
- Why you absorb everyone’s emotions, when you really don’t need any more
- What emotional bandwidth actually is, and why yours runs out by 7pm
- The hidden cost of being “the reliable one” at work and at home
- Why you’re patient with colleagues but snap at your family
- How to stop over-functioning without dropping your standards
- Practical boundaries that protect your energy without making you feel selfish or guilty
When achievement never feels like enoughWhen self-worth meets achievement
You learned early that being competent, in control or pleasing was the surest way to feel okay and worthwhile. Now it’s tripping you up, because your brain is using a way of living and functioning that is no longer applicable. This workshop shows you how to update it.
This is the habit where your confidence and self-worth depend on how perfectly you perform, how smoothly everything runs, and how happy everyone else seems to be with you. It shows up as that urge to over-deliver even when no one asked you to, and the creeping guilt if you even think about doing what you would consider “enough” from others. Your competence has become your identity, and your burnout looks suspiciously like productivity.
In this workshop, you’ll learn
- Why competent women feel like frauds (the outsourced worthiness loop explained)
- The hidden psychological cost of tying your worth to performance
- Why achievement, praise and promotion never actually make you feel better
- How to anchor confidence internally, so feedback doesn’t wobble you
- Leading with authority without the constant audition
- Why rest feels guilty, success feels conditional, and you never feel “done”
Why your brain won’t switch offThe psychology of the busy mind
This isn’t a sleep problem. It’s a system problem. And understanding that changes everything.
You told yourself you would get an early night. But here you are at 3am. Again. Your brain is busy playing over the tone of the emails you sent today, tomorrow’s meeting, Thursday’s dentist appointment, whether you were too short with your colleague. Your body is beyond tired, yet your mind is on supercharge. You held it together perfectly all day. From the outside, you look like you’ve got it sorted. From the inside? You’re one bad night’s sleep away from completely unravelling.
In this workshop, you’ll learn
- Why your brain stays stuck in Duracell-bunny mode (the psychology of a busy mind)
- The brain-body-emotion loop that keeps you wired until 3am, and how to break it
- Why meditation apps, breathing exercises and “sleep hygiene” aren’t ever going to cut it
- Science-backed techniques that actually work
- How to interrupt the 3am spiral without adding another wellness routine to your list
- What your racing thoughts are really telling you
Decision paralysis and second-guessingClear decision-making under pressure, without the panic
You learned early that being careful and prepared helped you feel calmer, respected or out of trouble. This workshop teaches you how to start to trust yourself and make good decisions in a way that doesn’t leave you feeling like something awful is about to happen any second.
You analyse everything. Replay conversations. Predict reactions. Write imaginary scripts for situations that haven’t even happened yet. Your brain believes that thinking enough will prevent things from going wrong, so it tries to think its way out of every possibility. Overthinking never stays in one lane. It spills into work, relationships, parenting, your social life, your sleep and your sense of self.
In this workshop, you’ll learn
- Why smart women feel paralysed by simple decisions and choices
- How the constant overthinking at work is learnt, not personality
- How to trust your judgment versus endless scenario-planning
- What to do so you can make decisions with clarity, even when you’re stretched
- Decisive leadership without the mental gymnastics
The real reason you can’t say no, and what it is costing youOver-functioning, people-pleasing and boundary-setting at work
This workshop shows you how to step back without everything collapsing, so you can step forward into a more fulfilling life for yourself.
Over-functioning is your party trick. You really don’t want to take everything on, you just somehow do, not because you want control but because life has taught you that if you don’t step in, things will fall apart. On paper, it works: people rely on you, trust you and praise you. But under the surface the cost is huge. You never get to stop. You never get to hand the baton to anyone else. And it takes you away from the kind of person you want to be, and how you want to live, lead and parent.
In this workshop, you’ll learn
- Why capable women can’t stop saying yes (the survival psychology explained)
- The over-functioner trap in high-performance workplace culture
- How “being helpful and nice” became a prison
- Strategic no’s that build respect instead of resentment
- How to delegate without guilt or micromanaging
- Protecting your capacity without looking uncommitted or disengaged
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