Overcoming Self-Abandonment: A Guide for Women Who Are Done Being Everything but Themselves

ISBN: 196230552X

Author: Hoenig, Avery

Condition: New

Youve been everything to everyone.You hustle, overdeliver, say yes when you mean no, and carry the emotional weight of everyone around you. Youve spent your whole life perfecting your expected roles-daughter, wife, friend, employee, mother-all while silencing your own desires and losing yourself in what other people want. You tell yourself youre fine. Youre strong. Youll rest later. But the truth is, youre exhausted.Youre done-and youre not alone.Psychologists Avery Hoenig, Lucy Smith, and Jamie Wilson dont just see this phenomenon in the therapy room, they have experienced it in their own lives. Now, they are on a mission to help all women untangle from self-abandonment. To free themselves from the societal expectations that have taught and encouraged them to focus on outside opinions rather than internal wisdom. To reconnect to the version of themselves that knows best and is ready to be heard and seen.Filled with compassion, powerful stories, and concrete change strategies, Overcoming Self-Abandonment will help you recognize the patterns that are draining you and give you tools to reclaim your time, energy, and identity. This is not about becoming someone else. Its about finally becoming you. If youre done disappearing from your own life, this book is your permission slip to take up space and make your way back to yourself.