THE CAPACITY CURE: Why High-Functioning Women Get Stuck (and How Not To)
A workshop for women ready to interrupt the stress-and-overwhelm cycle and develop their capacity to contain more life
It's a problem for so many of us. Capable, high-functioning, and exhausted. Still believing we're under-performing, that the answer is to try harder.
I've so been there. Sadly (or happily, depending how you look at it), “trying harder” isn't the solution.
I've spent a LOT of time in the stress-and-overwhelm cycle.
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When you experience chronic stress, your brain stays in survival mode.
Surviving beats the alternative, but survival mode is incredibly resource-expensive to the body. The energy demand of producing from survival mode is WHY so many high-functioning women end up in the stress-and-overwhelm cycle. Your autonomic nervous system is doing what it’s programmed to do—keep you alive—so thank you, nervous system. |
But now, you can work WITH your body to experience SAFETY, and then you can interrupt the stress-and-overwhelm cycle—and be powered by all the resources you need.
in this one-hour workshop, you'll learn:
All about the physiology of stress and overwhelm in a way that’s clear, practical, and immediately actionable.
- How fight, flight, freeze, and fawn show up in everyday life
- Why motivation fails when you’re overwhelmed
- What happens in your body during chronic stress
- How to recognize your own survival patterns
- Simple ways to begin completing the stress cycle
- Why capacity, not willpower, is the key to meaningful change
Fight: come over here and make me!
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Flight: too scary, I'm out of here!
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Freeze: I just...can't anymore.
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Fawn: I'm so helpful and sweet, you couldn't want to hurt ME.
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what is this "capacity" of which you speak?
Capacity is your ability to hold the stress of normal life without collapsing.
When your capacity is depleted, you fall into stress patterns that land you in overwhelm sooner or later. Most of us flip-flop between stress and overwhelm without ever finding our way back to rest and renewal.
Modern culture has normalized this.
But it cannot be emphasized enough: you DO NOT actually have to live this way!
You are programed for capacity. And when capacity expands, your natural strengths come back in full force.
You can feel safe. You can feel rested. You can get everything important done without burning yourself out.
this workshop is for you if:
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I got tired of living that way.
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what makes the capacity cure different:
Well first, it’s not mindset work. (That’s good work, but you need to feel safe first.)
Nor is it about pushing yourself harder. (We’ve all had enough of THAT for one life.)
It’s all about understanding your basic biology—and learning to work with it instead of against it.
This is a practical, info-rich session. You’ll learn how your stress physiology impacts your daily life, identify how to interrupt those patterns, and leave with tools you can use immediately.
Nor is it about pushing yourself harder. (We’ve all had enough of THAT for one life.)
It’s all about understanding your basic biology—and learning to work with it instead of against it.
This is a practical, info-rich session. You’ll learn how your stress physiology impacts your daily life, identify how to interrupt those patterns, and leave with tools you can use immediately.
a note from anena
After the sudden death of my life partner in 2021, I committed to grieving well.
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I didn’t know that the intense restorative process I undertook to survive my grief WAS the work of pattern-interrupting, in real time, my own stress-and-overwhelm cycle. Years after becoming a women’s coach, I coached myself without even realizing it!
I grieved well, and eventually I reached the point where I could pour my love for my guy into helping others. I began teaching workshops to help businesses and communities understand the impact of stress and trauma. Now, through the Capacity Cure, I bring that work into a more personal space--helping women who are capable, visionary, and quietly overwhelmed to understand their own physiology and build the capacity to live their lives more powerfully. This work has changed EVERYTHING for me, and I would love to see what it does for you too. |
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What others says about the capacity cure:
Women leave this workshop saying things like:
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“I was pleased to see how practical the approach is. This is useful, thoughtful, and eminently relatable.”
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"This was super smart, interesting, informative, and helped me to think of some solutions I can put into place immediately."
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"Honestly, I was only going to half pay attention and also be with my family watching the Oscars, but your content was so interesting, I moved to another room and just focused on your workshop."
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“Anena, I can’t say enough wonderful things about the energy and the guidance you give.”
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FYI, if you already know you want to go deeper, I offer a 4-week Well-Stressed Woman program where we take this work further and devise new structures to support developing capacity in your daily life. You can sign up here, and I’ll also tell you about it in the Capacity Cure. If you’ve been “trying harder” for years and it’s still not working…why not try something new? Doesn’t matter if it’s the one-hour workshop or the four-week course, just…join one please, okay? You deserve to know this information. It’s life-changing. |
see you on zoom! |