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the well-stressed woman

A 4-week systemic reset
for women ready to break free
​of the stress-and-overwhelm cycle

CURRENTLY ENROLLING FOR:
​Tuesday evenings, May 5th - 26th
 
Note: receive 33% to 50% off the Well-Stressed Woman four-week program if you sign up within 96 hours of purchasing this intro workshop!

​For all that we talk about reducing stress, here’s the truth: stress is your ally, and you don’t actually need less of it.


Seriously. You don’t need less stress. Just need a different relationship to it.

Modern life is intense, full of meaningful work and challenges. You have goals, responsibilities, people you love, causes you value—of course you feel stress.

The problem isn’t stress. It’s what happens after too much stress for too long—when stress turns into overwhelm and your body never accesses true rest. That’s when negative chain reactions begin to unfold. 


You don’t need to be better or do more. You just need the capacity to access what you already are. 
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The cycle most women are stuck in

Push, manage, carry, try. Plan, execute, hurry. Remember everything. Remind others of everything. Keep all the balls in the air, all the time. 

Until you snap at your kids, shut down with your partner, make another excuse, procrastinate past the point of no return, or feel too exhausted to tackle one more task. 

At some point, you finally pause to rest…so why do you so rarely feel rested?

We’ve been taught that the answer is to try harder. And that somehow, while trying harder, we’re supposed to reduce our stress!

Let yourself off the hook for that one. The answer is actually to make your stress work for you and be able to stop and really rest before your stress degenerates into overwhelm. 

It’s got nothing to do with working harder OR smarter, and everything to do with developing your capacity. 

The Well-Stressed Woman: a different approach

In this work, we don’t try to eliminate stress, we learn to use it.

Stress is your ally. It’s the energy that helps you act, create, and move toward every goal that matters.

Stress is your resource. You can learn to work with it—and put appropriate boundaries around it—instead of being controlled by it.

And oh by the way, alongside all that useful stress, rest is non-negotiable.

What you’ll build in the Well-Stressed Woman

This work is about capacity: your ability to hold the intensity of life—pleasure as well as discomfort—without collapsing. 

Capacity allows you to contain your stress without tipping into overwhelm, stay present instead of shutting down, follow through on what’s important to you, and become a container for what you most desire instead of a sieve that your desires slip through. 

​With capacity, you can face the things that always made you turn away before. You can hold space for your own discomfort and stay steady in the face of big challenges, changes, or opportunities. Capacity gives you access to the version of yourself you’ve been wanting to become.

this is a safe space to dig into the real stuff

Over four weeks, you will learn how to:
  • recognize your personal stress and overwhelm patterns that have been driving your life behind the scenes
  • interrupt the stress-and-overwhelm cycle in real time
  • create legit felt safety in your body
  • complete the stress response instead of having it all build up inside you
  • build a daily regulation practice that vitalizes you
  • stop living in survival mode and start living intentionally
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the four-week journey

Week 1 — Your Nervous System

You’ll learn how your body responds to stress in real time. 

You’ll map your fight, flight, and freeze patterns and identify your default primary and secondary responses. You’ll practice becoming receptive to the messages your stress and overwhelm are giving you. 

You’ll learn:
  • how to recognize when you’re approaching overwhelm and what tips you over the edge
  • how to bring yourself back using motion and rest
  • how to create felt safety in your body
  • how to complete the stress cycle

You’ll begin building your daily regulation practice.


Week 2 — Your Natural Structures & Nonlinear Strengths

You’ll learn to work with your body instead of against it by tapping into some of the most fundamental yet overlooked resources that women possess.

We’ll explore:
  • your four nonlinear strengths
  • the natural cycles of the seasons, women’s lives, and the body’s rhythms
Using these inherent strengths, you’ll nurture a new version of yourself. You’ll begin to align your life and your daily practices with your natural energy instead of forcing consistency through willpower (which never works, FYI). 


Week 3 — Habits, Dopamine & Willpower

You’ll learn why habits are so hard to change—and how to shift them with a creative approach.

We’ll cover:
  • false regulation vs true regulation
  • why your nervous system clings to certain behaviors
  • how dopamine and craving shape your patterns
  • the principle of addition before subtraction
  • how to build new habits without triggering resistance

As you begin implementing small, sustainable changes that stick, you’ll start experiencing a more empowered and authentic version of yourself. 


Week 4 — Relationships, Boundaries & Holding Your Ground

You’ll learn how your nervous system interacts with others and activate your intuitive ability to create new relational pathways.

We’ll explore:
  • how to recognize stress patterns in loved ones
  • how their patterns activate yours​
  • the scared versions of you that stand in the way of being and doing your best
  • how to stay grounded when others are dysregulated and support them without losing yourself
  • how to build boundaries that protect your capacity

​This is where your capacity becomes relational and lived.
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What makes The Well-Stressed Woman different

We live in a culture of “do more in order to be.” The Well-Stressed Woman follows a different gospel. You don’t have to try harder, you don’t have to force yourself to change, you don’t have to BE BETTER. 
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Instead, you get to understand your natural physiology and work with it instead of against it. You’ll activate inherent skillsets that have been kicking around in the background all these years, waiting to be utilized. 
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At the most fundamental level, you’ll learn how to:
  • regulate your nervous system
  • build real capacity
  • create and contain sustainable change


who this is for

This program is for you if:
  • you feel stuck in cycles of stress and overwhelm
  • you know what would help your life but struggle to follow through
  • you tend to over-function or over-give, carrying more than your fair share
  • you want to feel more calm, clear, and in control
  • you know you’re capable of more but just can’t seem to break your inner glass ceiling
  • you’re ready to stop pushing harder and start supporting yourself


the result

By the end of this program, you will have:
  • a clear map of your body’s stress and overwhelm pattern
  • context and compassion for why you do what you do (and why others do, too)
  • individualized strategies that enable you to pattern-interrupt in real time
  • tools that regulate your body and return you to felt safety
  • a daily practice that supports your nervous system’s optimal performance  • increased capacity to handle challenges without collapse
  • more confidence in, and a deeper relationship to, the most authentic parts of you

program details

  • A small, guided circle limited to six women
  • Tuesday or Wednesday evenings
  • 7:00 to 8:00 pm EST (with the option to stay later for casual sharing)
  • Live on Zoom

CURRENTLY ENROLLING FOR: Tuesday evenings, May 5th - 26th 

join the well-stressed woman 4-week program

The cost of developing tools to expand your capacity and break your inner glass ceilings: 

Small group: $477 


Private coaching: $977

 
(2-month payment plans are available--please message me if this is your preference)

flash sale

33% off small group coaching, Tuesday program in May = $322
50% off premium one-on-one coaching = $488

**Must purchase your program by 11.59 pm on Sunday, April 19th**
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a note from anena

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For over a decade, I’ve been coaching women and communities to leverage their inherent capacity in order to activate the most authentic and empowered version of themselves. 

The Well-Stressed Woman brings this work into an intimate space—supporting small circles of women in building the capacity to live and work from limitless capacity instead of being stuck in survival mode.

You don’t need less stress, just the tools to make stress work for you.

You can build the capacity to hold stress, forestall overwhelm, and be a container for your best life.
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