Women & Female Students
Articles for women and female students
These articles speak to the pressures women and students actually name out loud: feeling responsible for everyone, having no room left, wondering who you are apart from what you accomplish, and learning to trust your own voice again.
Articles in this topic
When you feel responsible for everyone
Where over-responsibility comes from, what it costs, and how to set it down without abandoning people.
How to set a boundary without a fight
Plain language for saying no, plus what to do with the guilt that arrives afterward.
People pleasing and the cost of always saying yes
What people pleasing protects you from, and how to start saying no in survivable increments.
When there is simply too much to carry
A practical way through a season where the load is genuinely too heavy, without shaming yourself for it.
Graduate school, big decisions and decision fatigue
For students and women facing programs, jobs, moves and relationships while running on empty.
Who am I outside of what I do?
For women whose sense of self has quietly merged with their roles, output and usefulness.
Mother guilt that never quite lets up
For mothers carrying a standard nobody could meet, and the guilt that arrives either way.
Asking for help when you are the strong one
For women who hold everyone else together and have no idea how to be the one who needs something.
Going back to work or school after time away
For women re-entering a classroom or workplace and quietly convinced everyone else belongs there more.
How to find the right counselor in the Cedar Valley
Practical guidance on choosing a counselor, what to ask first, and what a good fit feels like.
How do I know if I need counseling?
The quiet signs that it may be time to talk with someone, and why you do not have to be in crisis to start.
What to expect at your first counseling appointment
What the first hour actually looks like, what you will be asked, and what you do not have to have figured out beforehand.
If this is what you are living with right now, you can also read how Lori works with it in counseling: women & female students. Or browse all of Lori's articles.
Reaching out can be the first step.
You don't need to know exactly what to say, or have anything figured out, before you contact Lori.
Or email rasmussencounselingandsd@gmail.com