So, You're Starting Over: Navigating Transitions with Peace and Power as You Break the People-Pleasing Pattern
Hailey brings humor, inspiration, personal experience, and her trademark nuanced attitude to a discussion of how, for the recovering people-pleaser, "starting over" can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come home to ourselves.
As we break the people-pleasing pattern, we often find ourselves in the position of starting over.
Maybe we experience a break-up or divorce and start over in our romantic lives.
Maybe we leave a career and start over professionally.
Maybe we disconnect from a friend group and start over socially.
Maybe we quit an addiction and start over in our relationship to our time and to ourselves.
Or maybe we leave behind an old city, social group, or faith, and start over in our sense of community.
At first, starting over can be heartbreaking, disorienting, and frustrating. We might feel completely untethered, unmoored, and unclear on who we are and what we want. The very phrase “starting over” seems to imply that we’re right back where we started, all over again.
But for the recovering people-pleaser, starting over can be an unexpected gift: a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to truly come home to ourselves.
In this talk, we’ll explore how “starting over” is an opportunity to nurture the parts of ourselves that we previously neglected—to finally design our lives around our own needs, preferences, and boundaries—and to rediscover our own sense of identity and purpose.
We’ll explore how starting over offers a blank canvas of possibility where we can exercise our own creativity and desire. During these periods of transition, we may find ourselves presented with new and unexpected connections, directions, and realizations that expand our sense of who we are and what we believe is possible.
Finally, we’ll explore how we can navigate these life-changing transitions from a place of inner strength, power, and creativity. We’ll consider: How might this transition period be an opportunity to pause and take stock of what I most wish to experience during this one short life?
This talk includes 45 minutes of speaking and 45 minutes of Q&A.
Hailey brings humor, inspiration, personal experience, and her trademark nuanced attitude to a discussion of how, for the recovering people-pleaser, "starting over" can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come home to ourselves.
As we break the people-pleasing pattern, we often find ourselves in the position of starting over.
Maybe we experience a break-up or divorce and start over in our romantic lives.
Maybe we leave a career and start over professionally.
Maybe we disconnect from a friend group and start over socially.
Maybe we quit an addiction and start over in our relationship to our time and to ourselves.
Or maybe we leave behind an old city, social group, or faith, and start over in our sense of community.
At first, starting over can be heartbreaking, disorienting, and frustrating. We might feel completely untethered, unmoored, and unclear on who we are and what we want. The very phrase “starting over” seems to imply that we’re right back where we started, all over again.
But for the recovering people-pleaser, starting over can be an unexpected gift: a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to truly come home to ourselves.
In this talk, we’ll explore how “starting over” is an opportunity to nurture the parts of ourselves that we previously neglected—to finally design our lives around our own needs, preferences, and boundaries—and to rediscover our own sense of identity and purpose.
We’ll explore how starting over offers a blank canvas of possibility where we can exercise our own creativity and desire. During these periods of transition, we may find ourselves presented with new and unexpected connections, directions, and realizations that expand our sense of who we are and what we believe is possible.
Finally, we’ll explore how we can navigate these life-changing transitions from a place of inner strength, power, and creativity. We’ll consider: How might this transition period be an opportunity to pause and take stock of what I most wish to experience during this one short life?
This talk includes 45 minutes of speaking and 45 minutes of Q&A.
Hailey brings humor, inspiration, personal experience, and her trademark nuanced attitude to a discussion of how, for the recovering people-pleaser, "starting over" can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come home to ourselves.
As we break the people-pleasing pattern, we often find ourselves in the position of starting over.
Maybe we experience a break-up or divorce and start over in our romantic lives.
Maybe we leave a career and start over professionally.
Maybe we disconnect from a friend group and start over socially.
Maybe we quit an addiction and start over in our relationship to our time and to ourselves.
Or maybe we leave behind an old city, social group, or faith, and start over in our sense of community.
At first, starting over can be heartbreaking, disorienting, and frustrating. We might feel completely untethered, unmoored, and unclear on who we are and what we want. The very phrase “starting over” seems to imply that we’re right back where we started, all over again.
But for the recovering people-pleaser, starting over can be an unexpected gift: a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to truly come home to ourselves.
In this talk, we’ll explore how “starting over” is an opportunity to nurture the parts of ourselves that we previously neglected—to finally design our lives around our own needs, preferences, and boundaries—and to rediscover our own sense of identity and purpose.
We’ll explore how starting over offers a blank canvas of possibility where we can exercise our own creativity and desire. During these periods of transition, we may find ourselves presented with new and unexpected connections, directions, and realizations that expand our sense of who we are and what we believe is possible.
Finally, we’ll explore how we can navigate these life-changing transitions from a place of inner strength, power, and creativity. We’ll consider: How might this transition period be an opportunity to pause and take stock of what I most wish to experience during this one short life?
This talk includes 45 minutes of speaking and 45 minutes of Q&A.