You Can’t Heal What You Keep Hidden - Riverbend

Come meet a community of professional women committed to building relationships and helping each other succeed. Free attendance!
About this Event

GUEST SPEAKER: Shelly Snow Pordea
TOPIC: You Can’t Heal What You Keep Hidden
WHERE: Johnson’s Corner – 2000 State Street Alton, IL 62002
WHEN: Friday October 16, 2026 – 11:30AM-1:00PM CST

You Can’t Heal What You Keep Hidden: Why your voice, your words, and your stories matter.

What happens when we finally say the thing we have been afraid to say? This talk explores why your story is not just yours. Once told, it belongs to every woman who has ever swallowed her truth to keep the peace. Shelly Snow Pordea draws on her experience as a publisher, author, and advocate to talk about the healing that becomes possible when we stop editing ourselves for other people’s comfort. Because telling your story is not just an act of courage, it is the path to a life that actually feels like yours, waking up aligned with your purpose, doing work that matters, and finally feeling like enough.

Contact Riverbend’s Speaker Directly:
Shelly Snow Pordea – Little Black Book Publishing Editor-in-Chief

Email: [email protected]

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Enjoy a proven, structured system that embraces the building of relationships which in turn will grow your business efficiencies, sales, exposure, and business processes.

Come meet and learn from panelists, experts, and local women in your WEW chapter. You will also find allies who want to help with your success and are ready to share their resources and expertise to help you take that next step in your personal and professional life.

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