Recovering the Woman I Lost While Carrying Everything Alone
A live weekly conversation for Black women who are capable, successful, and tired of surviving their own lives.
This space is for Black women who have been holding everything together and are starting to feel the cost.
Not because something is wrong with you. But because strength has required too much for too long.
You do not need fixing. You need room to come back to yourself.
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Every weekly conversation is recorded and added to The Returning to Yourself Library. No pressure to keep up. Just a place to return when you are ready.
Access the libraryMeet the Rest Strategist who's changing rest into strategy
Elizabeth McCoy
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Host and Unapologetically A Rested Black Woman
You don’t arrive here because you lack discipline, ambition, or strength. Most women who find this space have already proven they can carry a lot — often for a very long time.
I create spaces for Black women who have built successful lives in survival mode and are quietly realizing that what once worked now feels heavy. Not broken. Just costly.
My work is informed by over a decade in mental health practice, advanced clinical training, and ongoing doctoral-level study focused on how high-functioning women carry stress, responsibility, and identity over time. I’ve spent years sitting with women who are respected in their roles, relied on by many, and privately exhausted by how much they hold together.
Outside of this work, I live a full life — one that includes private practice, leadership, caregiving, and building spaces that center rest, restoration, and sustainable power for Black women. I understand both the visibility and the invisibility that come with being capable, accomplished, and constantly needed.
My role here isn’t to fix you or move you toward another version of yourself. It’s to facilitate conversations that allow you to slow down enough to hear what’s been buried under responsibility, leadership, and being “the strong one.”
These weekly conversations are grounded in psychological insight, lived experience, and deep respect for the intelligence and discernment Black women bring into every room. This is not therapy, coaching, or motivation. It’s a regulated, intentional space to reflect, reconnect, and come back to yourself without pressure or performance.
You’re welcome to join live, return through the library, or simply know this space exists for when you need it.
There’s no right way to be here.
Just room.
“I thought I was burned out.
Elizabeth helped me see it was really years of being strong without rest, and that changed how I see myself and my future.”
This is a place to come back to yourself
These are weekly, live conversations created for Black women who have been carrying a lot for a long time.
There’s no curriculum to keep up with and nothing you’re expected to fix.
Each week, we slow the pace and name what’s happening beneath responsibility, leadership, and being “the strong one.” Sometimes that looks like reflection. Sometimes it looks like language for things you’ve felt but never said out loud.
You can come live. You can listen quietly. You can return to the replays when you need them.
This space is structured, intentional, and grounded without pressure to perform or participate in any specific way.
