Awakening The Forgotten Self

For those who look fine on the outside, but feel disconnected on the inside.

Many people don’t realize they’ve learned to leave themselves.

They just know they’re tired.

Over-functioning.
Overlooking their own needs.
Holding everything together while feeling disconnected inside.

This full-day experiential conference explores self-abandonment — how it forms, why it makes sense, and how to begin coming back to yourself.

Not a lecture.
Not information overload.
Not “take notes and figure it out later.”

Teaching, reflection, and practical exercises are woven throughout the day so insight doesn’t stay theoretical.

No pressure to share.
No emotional performance.

Just real understanding — and ways to carry it into everyday life.

Ticket price is $180. HST is added automatically at checkout.

“You didn’t lose yourself — you learned how to survive.”

This is not a motivational workshop or a wellness trend.

It is facilitated by experienced trauma clinicians who work daily with the very patterns being explored — self-abandonment, over-functioning, emotional exhaustion, and disconnection from self.

Rather than offering quick fixes or surface-level tools, this day is held with depth, clarity, and care. The environment is emotionally safe, grounded, and free from pressure to perform, disclose, or “fix” yourself.

The intention is not to change who you are —
but to help you reconnect with who you were before survival became your way of living.

Founder, CEO & Clinical Director · EMDR Certified Therapist

With over three decades of clinical experience, Wendy has supported individuals and families through trauma, attachment wounds, burnout, and life transitions. Her work focuses on helping people understand the patterns that required them to disconnect from themselves — not with judgment, but with compassion and clarity.

As Founder and Clinical Director of evolve Psychotherapy & Consulting Group Inc., Wendy provides supervision, training, and consultation to clinicians and organizations, including hospitals and leadership teams.

Awakening The Forgotten Self reflects the heart of Wendy’s work: helping people reconnect with who they were before adaptation became identity.

Registered Practitioner · Addiction Counsellor

Sarah supports individuals in understanding coping strategies that once helped them survive. Her grounded presence helps participants soften self-judgment and reconnect with themselves in ways that feel safe, compassionate, and attainable.

Registered Psychotherapist

Aarushi offers a calm, reflective approach to identity and emotional awareness. She supports participants in understanding how early experiences shape present-day patterns and in rebuilding trust in their inner voice.

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Sylvia brings warmth and thoughtful curiosity to her facilitation. Her work supports reflection around meaning, values, and inner narrative, helping participants reconnect with parts of themselves that have long gone unheard.

Registered Social Worker

Sarah’s work is grounded in attachment and relational understanding. Her steady, compassionate presence supports participants in exploring emotional patterns, boundaries, and reconnection with self and others.

9:00 – 9:30 | Arrival, Orientation & Safety
Settling into the space and outlining how the day will be held.

9:30 – 9:50 | Seeing the Pattern Clearly
Identifying common self-abandonment patterns and why they’re often hard to recognize.

9:50 – 10:30 | Why We Learn to Leave Ourselves
Understanding how self-abandonment develops and why it once made sense.

10:30 – 10:45 | Break

10:45 – 12:15 | The Body’s Role in Self-Abandonment
How stress responses, tension, fatigue, and disconnection show up before conscious awareness.

12:15 – 1:00 | Lunch
Lunch provided (dietary needs accommodated).

1:00 – 2:30 | Why Returning to Yourself Can Feel Hard
Exploring fear, guilt, emotional intensity, and uncertainty that can arise when reconnecting.

2:30 – 2:45 | Break

2:45 – 3:40 | Practicing Self-Loyalty in Real Life
Translating insight into grounded, everyday practices.

3:40 – 4:00 | Integration & Closing

Tickets are $`180+hst, seats are limited

• Individuals navigating people-pleasing, over-functioning, codependency, or emotional disconnection
• Helpers, caregivers, clinicians, leaders, and parents

Info: Settling into the space, clarifying how the day will be held, and creating a container where depth, choice, and pacing are prioritized.

Info: Naming common self-abandonment patterns and why so many caring, capable people don’t recognize them at first.

Info: Exploring how self-abandonment forms in relationship, and why choosing others over yourself once felt necessary.

Info: Understanding how self-abandonment shows up through stress responses, tension, exhaustion, and disconnection — often before conscious awareness.

Info: Lunch will be provided for you! Let us know if you have dietary restrictions.

Info: Exploring why coming back to yourself can feel unsafe or uncomfortable, including fears of emotional intensity, conflict, guilt, or losing others.

Info: Translating insight into realistic, relationally safe ways of staying connected to yourself.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher evolve Psychotherapy and Consulting Group Inc