FREE GUIDE

A guide to recognizing self-abandonment and reclaiming your voice so you can stop silencing yourself to keep the peace.
This guide is for women who want to learn what self-abandonment is, how it shows up in their life, and how to take their power back to start reclaiming voice.
Learn what self-abandonment actually means and why so many women don’t realize they are doing it.
Discover the hidden ways you might be abandoning yourself without even noticing.
Walk away with five shifts you can begin using to stop abandoning yourself and reclaim your voice.
Understand what to expect - from yourself and others - as you begin to honor your own needs.

Jenna Garagiola
“This guide gave language to something I’ve lived for years without realizing. Like many women, I’ve put my family’s needs ahead of my own, especially when it comes to my health and self-care.
What I love most is how Lisa highlights that this isn’t a personal flaw, it’s something so many of us learned through what was modeled to us.
Her approach feels supportive and freeing, rather than confronting. “
Anne-Marie Wright
“Really informative. It gave me a glimpse of how broad a subject self-abandonment is and how much it affects everyday life without realizing. It looks at ways to change/adapt and how I see myself in different situations and how I want to please everyone to the detriment of myself.”

Hi, I’m Lisa. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Personal Growth Coach. My journey to helping women find their voice started with healing my own silence.
I’ve always been naturally energetic and social, but I grew up in an environment where my energy often felt like “too much”. I internalized the belief that “my light was a burden” at a very young age. I began to quiet my energy and focus more on making sure everyone else felt comfortable. I would shrink into whatever space I was in to avoid negative reactions.
The pattern of shrinking to make others feel comfortable followed me into adulthood - guiding me into friendships and relationships that weren’t healthy for me.
After YEARS of doing this, I discovered there was a term for what I had been doing: Self-Abandonment. Learning about self-abandonment changed everything! The more I learned, the more I began to reclaim my voice — and slowly released the need to manage other people’s emotions and reactions.
This freebie was created to help you identify self-abandonment patterns in your own life … and to help you begin reclaiming your voice too.
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