This is for women who shut down instead of breaking down. Women who overthink everything, say nothing, and carry their whole life quietly inside.
If you’ve spent years being strong, calm, responsible, but disconnected from your own emotions…you’re in the right place.
If you are reading this, it means your inner world is asking to be understood, not managed, silenced, or ignored.
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I never speak to just the adult reading my words. I speak to the child who learned not to cry, the teen who learned not to need, the woman who learned to be strong because no one came.

For years, I carried quiet storms, the spirals, the overthinking, the sudden shame after speaking, the inner critic I mistook for truth. I kept telling myself to be stronger, calmer, quieter...
But the real problem wasn’t my feelings. It was that no one ever taught me how to understand them.
So now this is my work, my mission, my spine.
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I don’t write for the confident part of you. I write for the trembling one. The overthinking one. The one who’s been “strong” for so long, it became a kind of loneliness.
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I don’t separate psychology from humanity. Or trauma from identity. Or healing from meaning. I speak to all three: the body that remembers, the mind that overprotects, the soul that insists on being real.
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My work is always a negotiation between who you were forced to become and who you never got to be. I believe in slow unlearning, in turning courage into habit and compassion into muscle memory.

A Moment
There’s a moment most women hide, the moment right after something hurts.
Not the pain itself… but the way you hide yourself from feeling it. Start with:
You
You shut down. You spiral. You blame yourself first. Your chest tightens and you think, “Here I go again” or "I don’t know what I feel.” Begin naming what you feel with
And I
For years, I mistook my emotions for flaws. I grew up without emotional language.
Nobody taught me how to feel... they only taught me how to stay strong. So, I started journaling to know my way of thinking and reacting.
Feel and Need
My work lives there... in the turning point between self-attack and self-understanding. I help you listen to the part of you you’ve been fighting. The part that’s scared, tired, overwhelmed, unheard.

You’re here because you don’t always know what you feel, only that something inside you feels off.
You might notice things like:
You shut down when something gets too close.
You go numb instead of crying.
You can talk about work, plans, and responsibilities… but not yourself.
You get overwhelmed but can’t explain why.
You overthink because you can’t “feel” your way through things.
You say “I’m fine” because you don’t have another answer.
It’s not that you don’t feel. It’s that you don’t have a way to reach the feeling. You weren’t taught how to check in with yourself. You were taught how to keep going.
You’re here because that strategy is starting to hurt. In ways you can’t keep ignoring. You’re not here for a breakdown.
You’re here for a beginning. And I am happy you are here!



You’ve done the thinking, “I’ll figure it out on my own."
You’ve done the ignoring, "Other people have it worse."
You’ve done the “I’m fine, and the deep breaths.
And yet…still… something aches. Your chest still tightens, your thoughts still sprint, your emotions still feel louder than your logic.
It just means your inner world is asking to be understood, not managed, silenced, or ignored. You don’t have to keep guessing what you need. There’s a gentler way through this. Choose the path that feels gentlest right now:
For when you want clarity without speaking out loud. Write your way back to yourself.
For when your harshest moments come from within. Learn why you do that and how to stop.
For when everything feels tangled and tender. Come talk, breathe, ask, wonder.
For when you want clarity without speaking out loud. Write your way back to yourself.
For when your harshest moments come from within. Learn why you do that and how to stop.
For when everything feels tangled and tender. Come talk, breathe, ask, wonder.
Let’s understand and heal the part of you that panics, shuts down, or attacks itself. Start with whatever feels gentlest.
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