It’s 3:30 AM and you’re wide awake with seventeen different voices debating whether the font in slide 23 undermines your credibility.
Or maybe it’s Tuesday afternoon and you’re rewriting an email for the fourth time because one voice says it’s too direct, another says it’s too soft, and a third is calculating whether your word choice will cost you the relationship.
Perhaps you handled a complex negotiation with total composure, but an hour later you’re screaming about coffee mugs left in the sink—because that’s when all the voices you silenced during the meeting finally got the microphone.
If any of this sounds familiar, your internal system is louder than most people’s.
Here’s what I’ve learned working with hundreds of driven women: you’re not broken. You’re not “overthinking.” Your mind did something brilliant when you were young—it created different parts to handle impossible circumstances. The part that made Dad notice you became your Achiever. The part that kept Mom from falling apart became your Caretaker. The part that made sure you never became the problem became your Controller.
These weren’t character flaws. They were survival strategies. And they’re still running the show, even though the original emergency ended years ago.
This week’s workbook introduces you to Internal Family Systems (IFS)—a framework for understanding why you have seventeen opinions about everything and how to occasionally access the calm, grounded wisdom underneath all the noise.
