Stop Overriding Yourself

An Introduction to Internal Consent

A live virtual workshop for high-functioning women who have learned to operate brilliantly while quietly abandoning themselves internally — and who want to begin RESTORING THEIR RELATIONSHIP with internal consent.

Together, we’ll explore over-functioning, bracing, and what it means to reestablish trust with yourself without force or self-abandonment. Many high-functioning women have learned to override themselves in ways that look responsible from the outside:

• pushing through exhaustion
• saying yes too quickly
• disconnecting from their body
• and pushing through bracing while calling it discipline

Over time, this creates fragmentation, confusion, exhaustion, and loss of clarity — even in women who are deeply capable and self-aware. This workshop is an introduction to recognizing override in real time and reconnecting with internal consent from the inside out.

Inside the Workshop, We’ll Cover

• when override initiates
• why override becomes normalized in high-functioning women
• why insight alone often fails to create change
• how to recognize override in real time
• what internal consent actually feels like in the body
• and how to begin reestablishing trust with yourself without force or self-abandonment

What Participants Can Expect to Experience

This workshop is more than informational. Participants will be guided through an experiential reflection and embodied awareness practice designed to help them slow down moments of override and observe what was happening internally beneath the reaction, pressure, or performance.

Together, we’ll explore the relationship between body sensations, beliefs, perception, and decision-making while learning to recognize the difference between internal override and honest internal consent in real time.

Note: Because this workshop includes experiential reflection and embodied awareness practices, participants may notice emotional responses, increased internal awareness, or moments of discomfort as override patterns become more visible. Participants are encouraged to move at their own pace throughout the experience.

What Becomes Possible

As override becomes easier to recognize in real time, many women begin noticing greater clarity around their decisions, increased awareness of internal bracing before exhaustion or collapse occurs, and a deeper sense of what internal consent and coherence feel like in the body. Participants often leave with greater discernment between pressure, performance, adaptation, and honest participation, along with a growing sense of internal permission, trust, and grounded participation with themselves.

This workshop is not about forcing change or “fixing” yourself. It is about increasing recognition, restoring participation, and beginning to relate to yourself more honestly.

This Workshop Is For Women Who

• are highly capable but internally exhausted
• often push past their own capacity
• feel disconnected from themselves despite “doing the work”
• struggle to access clarity consistently
• are tired of living from pressure, bracing, or over-functioning
• want to rebuild internal trust and coherence

Upcoming workshop

Tuesday, May 19, 2026
12:00 PM PT

Live Virtual Workshop • Google Meet

Note: This workshop will not be recorded, as the live experience is an important part of the process. To support a more intentional and participatory experience, this workshop is being limited to a small group of 4–6 women.

To reserve your spot, click the button below to complete registration and payment.

Early registration is available at $27 through Sunday, May 17 at 7:00 PM PT.

Workshop registration will increase to $47 afterward.

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Please Note: This workshop will not be recorded, as the live experience is an important part of the process.

Disclaimer: This workshop is intended for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical, psychological, or therapeutic care. Please participate at your own pace and use discernment around your individual needs and capacity.

Dana is an Integrative Health Practitioner, Integration Guide, and retired Registered Nurse who works with high-functioning women who have learned to operate brilliantly—while quietly abandoning themselves—to restore internal consent, agency, and governance so they can author their own lives from a place of integration.

She helps women stabilize while their life is reorganizing.