Healing Patterns of Over-giving, People-pleasing & Self-Abandonment

Welcome to the Pattern & The Return: A Women's Gathering & Group Workshop Series

About this Event

The Pattern & The Return: A Women’s gathering and group coaching circle

Join Katie Turner, M.Sc., R. Psych, and Lindsay Culbert, MBA

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 6:30 to 8:30 pm : Exploring the Roots of the Deeper Patterns

(Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm : The Path to Returning to Better Balance * tickets for this evening are listed separately as participants are welcome to join both or one).

Women’s Circle + Workshop Series

Healing Overgiving, People-Pleasing & Self-Abandonment

A two-part therapeutic women’s circle for healing, connection, reflection, and embodied growth. (You are welcome to join one or both circles, each session will be unique depending on the energy and needs of the group).

This space is for women who are tired of holding everything together while quietly running on empty.

So many of us were taught that being loving meant being endlessly available, to give more, carry more, soften more, to push through at our own expense. Over time, we learn to disconnect from our own needs in order to maintain connection, approval, harmony, or safety.

This series is an invitation to pause and return to yourself while connecting in person with women who are on a similar journey.

Together, we’ll explore the roots of people-pleasing, overgiving, over-caretaking, and self-abandonment, not simply as personal flaws, but as patterns deeply shaped by family systems, cultural conditioning, patriarchy, and survival.

These unconscious patterns needs to be seen and acknowdlged before we can begin to consciously transform them and make different choices in the present.

What often feels deeply personal is also profoundly collective.

Many women struggle with questions like:

• Why do I feel guilty when setting limits?
• Why do I overextend myself in relationships?
• Why do I feel responsible for everyone else’s emotions?
• Why is rest so uncomfortable?
• Why do I abandon myself to maintain connection?

These patterns did not arise in isolation. They were learned, inherited, reinforced, and embodied over generations.

There is something deeply healing about coming together with other women who are also ready to question these narratives, witness one another honestly, and create new ways of relating, to ourselves and to others.

To continue to be loving and caring towards others, but to also be including ourselves in this circle of care. To know at a deep level that caring for ourselves is not separate from caring for others. That we can show up better in all our relationships when we are in a better relationship with ourselves.

What to Expect

This 2 part series blends: (You can sign up for both sessions as the theme will build on each session or attend the date that works for you. Each offering will be unique based on the needs of the group.

• Women’s circle + facilitated group process
• Therapeutic reflection and psychoeducation
• Nervous system awareness
• Meditation and embodiment practices
• Journaling and self-inquiry
• Group coaching and discussion
• In person connection with other growth focused women

Together, we’ll explore:

• The roots of chronic overextending and emotional exhaustion
• The difference between nurturing and self-sacrifice
• Boundaries as an act of self-respect and love
• Reconnecting to rest, receptivity, and inner fullness
• How patriarchy and conditioning shape women’s relational patterns
• Moving beyond guilt, martyrdom, and depletion
• How to care deeply for others while also honoring yourself
• Practical and embodied tools for creating healthier balance

The Power of Gathering in Community

Individual therapy can be life-changing, and this work deeply matters.

But healing was never meant to happen entirely alone.

There is also profound power in gathering in community, with women who are committed to their own growth and healing, not to rescue one another, but to witness, support, reflect, and remember together.

So much of what we carry loses its shame when spoken aloud in community.

Often, the compassion we so easily extend to other women becomes a pathway back to ourselves.

We were never meant to do this alone.We all need both the village, and the experience of being a villager ourselves.

Loneliness is not simply the absence of people around us.It is the absence of meaningful connection.

This circle offers space to slow down, soften, and reconnect, without needing to perform, prove, fix, or hold everything together.

Come as you are.Leave feeling more connected to your own wisdom, capacity, boundaries, and wholeness.

Location: The Sanctuary (inside of Vitality BioMed) #280, 7015 Macloed Trail SW

You can register for both or each individually.

This 2 part series is designed with the intention for the groups to build deeper by attending both sessions but are also complete in themselves to attend one of the other.

Investment:

Early Bird (Available until June 2nd) : $65

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Due to the nature of the event tickets are non-refundable but you can transfer your tickets to a person of your choice.

‍A limited number of pay-where-you-position-yourself spaces are also available for those who do not have benefit coverage

Pay Where You Position Yourself is not “pay what you want.”It’s an invitation to tune in, to your resources, your values, and your heart, and offer an amount that both honours your circumstances and respects the value of the work.

There are three touchpoints to help you decide:

• Sustainable Rate: what allows me to continue offering this service fully and sustainably. ($75 CAN or $65 CAN at the early bird rate)
• Accessible Rate: a lower rate that keeps the door open for those with limited means. ($45 CAN : use the code: WOMEN45 at checkout)
• Heart Rate: if paying the accessible rate is too much of a stretch you can use the code WOMEN25 at check out ($25 to help cover operating expenses).

This model is built on trust.It asks each of us to be honest, about what we need, what we can offer, and what we want to nurture in the world. Thank you for being a part of the experiment!

The sessions may be eligible for reimbursement under extended health benefits plans. (Check with your personal plan for details, if you need an estimate to submit to insurance send a note to [email protected]).