Unabandoned
A Midlife Woman’s Guide Out of People-Pleasing, Perfectionism, and Imposter Syndrome
You did everything right. You became the one everyone counts on — the capable one, the agreeable one, the one who holds it all together.
So why the quiet hum of discontent that wakes you at 3 a.m.? The sense that somewhere along the way, in all that holding-it-together, you set yourself down and forgot to pick yourself back up?
Unabandoned is for the woman who is done abandoning herself.
Part memoir, part field guide, it’s the friendly company of someone who has walked this ground just ahead of you and is reaching back. I spent decades tangled in all three of these — people-pleasing, perfectionism, and the imposter’s whisper that I wasn’t really enough — and I’ve found my way (mostly) out. I still keep a flashlight handy for when the path gets dark.
Inside, I share the story and the tools together: what these patterns actually are, where they come from, why they’re not the character flaws you’ve been told they are — and the practices that help you come home to yourself.
You’ve left yourself behind for so long. This is the invitation to stay.
Out September 26th.
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