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

You hustle, overdeliver, say yes when you mean no, and carry the emotional weight of everyone around you. You’ve 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 you’re fine. You’re strong. You’ll rest later. But the truth is, you’re exhausted.

You’re done—and you’re not alone.

Psychologists Avery Hoenig, L...