Are you carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? In this episode, we’re diving deep into Superwoman Syndrome—a term coined in the 1980s by Dr. Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz to describe the pressure women feel to “do it all” and “be it all.”

Together, we’ll explore:

• What Superwoman Syndrome really is (and how it shows up in everyday life)
• The root causes, including cultural pressures, family expectations, and the fear of not being “enough”
• The symptoms and unrealistic expectations that fuel burnout, guilt, and perfectionism
• The long-term mental and physical impacts of wearing the cape
• Why this burden especially affects Black women, through the lens of Dr. Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombé’s 2010 research on the “Superwoman Schema”
• Practical strategies for hanging up the cape and reclaiming your identity beyond the roles you perform

This is a heart-to-heart conversation about exhaustion, identity, and liberation. If you’ve ever felt like you had to be everything to everyone, this episode will remind you that you are already enough—without the cape.

✨ Listen now and take the first step toward freedom, rest, and authenticity.

Have you ever found yourself constantly rearranging your life to meet everyone else’s needs—while ignoring your own? In this episode, of Pint-Sized Therapy, we explore a term I’ve coined: Radical Accommodation. It goes beyond people pleasing—into a deeper, more compulsive pattern of self-neglect driven by fear of rejection, abandonment, and the need to belong.

We’ll look at how Radical Accommodation forms, how it shows up in relationships, and why it’s so hard to break. Drawing from clinical insight, personal observation, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, we unpack the emotional cost of this behavior—like burnout, identity loss, and chronic anxiety.

You’ll also explore how family dynamics and past trauma shape this behavior, and walk away with actionable tools—cognitive, somatic, and relational—to start reclaiming your needs and sense of self.

If you’ve ever felt like you had to earn love by erasing yourself, this episode is for you.

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In this deeply personal episode of Pint-Sized Therapy, I open up about the recent loss of my stepfather, who was married to my mother for nearly 40 years and played an integral role in my life. As I sat with my mother in the days following his passing, she quietly asked, "Am I grieving the right way?"—a question that reminded me how often we silently struggle with whether our grief is valid.

Together, we explore what grief really is, how it can show up in many forms, and why there is no right or wrong way to mourn. We’ll unpack the common myths around grief, revisit the five stages of grief by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and take a closer look at the different types of grief — including anticipatory, disenfranchised, complicated, and ambiguous grief.

This episode is a heartfelt invitation to honor your grief, however it appears. Whether you’ve lost a person, a relationship, a dream, or a season of life, this space is for you.

🖤 You are not alone.
🧠 You are not doing it wrong.
💬 Let’s talk about it — gently, honestly, and with compassion.

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