
Outgrow Struggle.
From Chronically Exhausted High Performer to Effortless Thriving Human.
Quietly, intrinsically you know: Something has to change. You want to outgrow struggle. You just don’t know how yet.
This book will give you the awareness and tools to do just that. From someone who crashed and burned, so you don’t have to.
I was intelligent, passionate, driven, with a follow-through attitude… I did everything, just faster and sooner than most.
Maybe you’ve been giving it your all, but somehow never quite get the results you want, maybe because you are constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop and can never relax or feel accomplished.
Catherine LifeDesignInside the book
- The story of how multi-talented, sensitive, empathetic high-performers can channel and transform what makes or breaks them. I call it “alchemize”.
- How to keep the hunger and drive, while rewiring mechanisms of fear, survival and self-abandonment.
- Drawing on neuroplasticity, attachment theory, somatic practices and more.
The Many Faces of Narcissistic Abuse.
Five personal stories of what emotional abuse can look like.
I want to make voices of emotional abuse heard. I want those humans to tell their stories, so thousands of others can recognise themselves in those stories, get validated and embark on their healing journey too.
Throughout the book, the common patterns of emotional abuse are pointed out, so you can finally recognize them.
“But it wasn’t that bad.” “Someone had it so much worse.” “I was never hit, so it can’t have been that bad.” It’s actually called self-gaslighting.
Only when I read about my symptoms, behaviours and the tactics of my abuser in books, did I realise, “hey it’s actually a THING”.
Catherine LifeDesignThe stories
- Chapter one: “Punishment for breakfast”, a stepfather scenario
- Chapter two: “My cult upbringing”, what religious entrapment can do
- Chapter three: “The hidden emotional abuse in my marriage”, what you don’t see from the outside in close partnerships
- And other personal stories that take the blinders off what emotional abuse can look like.
A note before you read. These stories are personal accounts first and foremost, not scientific studies or universal psychological truths. They contain language of emotional abuse, neglect or thoughts of suicide - as well as courage, hope and remarkable healing.

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