07/03/2026
International Women's Day 2026 - "Give to Gain"
It’s Hard to Celebrate When the World Feels Like This - This year, International Women’s Day (IWD) lands in a world carrying visible and invisible wars. Many women are holding grief, fear, anger, and helplessness - whether directly impacted or watching from afar.
Lotus Embodied Therapy is a counselling service that provides psychological support to women across the lifespan navigating burnout, trauma and nervous system dysregulation. Next week in recognition of Queensland Women’s Week & International Women’s Day, I’ll be running a 7-day series called:
Coming Home to Yourself 🤍
Because many women I work with are accomplished, capable, and holding everything together and are quietly exhausted.
Queensland Women’s Week (QWW) is about shaping tomorrow together and IWD 2026 calls for action to dismantle structural barriers to equal justice - discriminatory laws, weak legal protections, and harmful social norms that erode the rights of women and girls. All work we need to do collectively – but there’s another layer we don’t talk about enough: The internal cost of surviving in systems that require women to over-function.
Burnout.
Hyper-independence.
Perfectionism.
Chronic tension.
Disconnection from the body.
These aren’t personality flaws.
They’re nervous system adaptations.
Over seven days, I’ll be unpacking:
🤍 The invisible load women carry
🤍 Burnout through a nervous system lens
🤍 The trauma–achievement link
🤍 Boundaries as biological protection
🤍 Why regulation is not indulgence
🤍 And how to rebuild self-trust from the inside out
This isn’t about empowerment slogans.
It’s about physiology.
Safety.
Agency.
Integration.
If you’re a woman who is high functioning but tired of living in survival mode, or just wanting to gain some validation and nervous system literacy, this week is for you.
Save this post.
Share it with a woman who carries too much.
And join me Monday.
