Resources and Insights
Tools, Reads, and Prompts Worth Your Time.
These are tools I've found, built, and collected because they've actually helped me, and the women I work with. Start wherever feels right. There's no order. Take what's useful, leave what's not.
Articles
Reads Worth Your Time
Short, direct pieces on the experiences that don't get named enough.
Journal Prompts
Questions Worth Sitting With
These aren't prompts to perform insight. They're questions designed to slow you down and help you hear yourself.
Reading List
Books That Have Informed This Work
Not a comprehensive list, just the books that have genuinely shaped how I think about identity, boundaries, and moving forward.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
A foundational read on how difficult experiences live in the body, and what that means for understanding your own responses.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Nedra Glennon Tawwab
Practical, direct, and without the guilt-trip. One of the most useful books on boundaries written for real life.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
For understanding inherited patterns and the dynamics that shaped you before you had language for them.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Particularly useful for understanding why completing the stress response matters, and how to actually do it.
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Less framework, more permission. A useful read for women questioning who they've been performing themselves as.
Tools
Practical Tools for the Work
Assessments, workbooks, and frameworks you can use on your own or alongside the workshops.
The Permission Seeker Assessment
Which of the 4 types of permission seekers are you, and what does that mean for how you move through the world? This assessment helps you identify your pattern and what to do with it.
Take the Assessment →The Permission Pyramid
A framework for understanding where permission-seeking comes from, how it shows up in your life, and how to move through it, from Joleen's Permission Deficit work.
Explore the Framework →Workshop Companion Workbooks
Each workshop comes with a take-home workbook for continued practice. If you've attended a workshop, your workbook is available here.
Access Your Workbook →The 5 Pillars of Reclamation Framework
A self-guided version of the foundational framework from When Survival Ends, for working through the five pillars at your own pace.
Coming soonEbooks
Deeper Frameworks, Written Down
Two ebooks built from Joleen's foundational frameworks, currently in final preparation for publication.
Permission Deficit: Reclaiming Your Right to Exist Without Apology
The Permission Pyramid, The 4 Types of Permission Seekers, and the Permission Seeker Assessment, written into a complete guide for women ready to stop asking for permission to take up space.
Notify me when it's available →When Survival Ends: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself, Your Body, and Your Life
The 5 Pillars of Reclamation, a complete framework for women moving out of survival mode and into intentional, self-directed living.
Notify me when it's available →Stay in the loop
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