Release Your Work Without Talking Yourself Out of It
A self-trust system for women whose work keeps getting stuck at the moment of visibility
I remember sitting at my laptop with the first draft finished.
Not “almost finished.”
Finished.
The pages were there.
The words were there.
The message was there.
And my stomach was in knots.
I stared at the screen like it could judge me back.
Then the questions came—fast and loud.
Who am I to release this?
Who am I to be listened to?
What if it’s not good enough?
What if they laugh?
What if they ignore it?
The wild part?
The doubt didn’t stop me while I was writing.
It showed up after the work was done.
Right at the moment of release.
So I did what a lot of smart women do when visibility gets close.
I got “responsible.”
I told myself the cover had to be exactly right.
The formatting needed more work.
The title didn’t feel perfect.
I needed to research one more thing.
I should wait until I had more time.
I started building a whole maze of little problems and distractions.
Not because they were real.
Because they were safer than being seen.
When you don’t trust yourself, you start trusting delays.
If you’re here, you probably know this moment too.
You finish the draft… and suddenly you can’t hit publish.
You build the training… and suddenly you add ten more slides.
You prepare the talk… and suddenly your body says, not yet.
Same pressure. Different format.
And I want to name the pattern without shaming you:
This is what it looks like when a woman has a message—
but her nervous system treats release like danger.
So she negotiates with herself.
She edits her edges off.
She over-explains to preempt criticism.
She over-prepares to avoid being questioned.
She keeps polishing until the work feels “safe.”
But “safe” is a moving target.
Perfection isn’t the goal. Protection is.
And the cost is never small.
Because the longer you delay,
the more you start to doubt the work itself.
the more you postpone, the heavier it gets.
the more you hide, the more your voice begins to feel like something you have to earn.
That’s what this publication is here to solve.
What Get Untrapped Media Is Here For
Get Untrapped Media is a self-trust system for women who write, teach, and speak—so you can consistently release your work without talking yourself out of it.
Not with hype.
With structure.
With tools that work in the exact moment your brain starts bargaining and your body starts tightening.
Here’s the root issue:
Most women think the problem is confidence.
It’s not.
It’s self-trust under pressure.
It’s the ability to stay connected to what you know even when being seen feels risky.
Because you can be brilliant and still abandon yourself at the finish line.
And if you don’t address that?
You won’t just delay one project.
You’ll build a life full of almosts.
Almost published.
Almost pitched.
Almost launched.
Almost spoke.
A hidden voice eventually becomes a muted life.
What “Get Untrapped” Actually Means
It means you stop building a life where your voice lives in drafts.
It means you stop treating visibility like danger and calling it “being responsible.”
It means you stop negotiating your message down to something that can’t offend anybody and can’t help anybody either.
To get untrapped is to rebuild the inner structure that lets you release your brilliance.
Not once.
Consistently.
Because the goal isn’t one brave moment.
The goal is a new pattern.
The Patterns We’re Going to Name Here
Inside this publication, we call the thing what it is—without shaming you.
We name patterns like:
The One More Revision Loop — polishing to postpone being seen
Over-Explaining as Insurance — adding words to avoid pushback
Over-Preparing as Protection — building decks instead of delivering
Waiting for Confidence — when what you actually need is self-trust under pressure
Visibility Hangover — releasing something and immediately spiraling into regret
Not to label you.
To liberate you.
Because when you can name it, you can interrupt it.
What I Believe About You
I believe you’re intelligent, capable, and already carrying something worth releasing.
And the reason it keeps getting stuck isn’t a lack of talent.
It’s that your nervous system hasn’t been trained to feel safe at the moment of exposure.
So you do what you learned to do:
tighten, edit, delay, perfect, disappear.
This isn’t a character flaw.
It’s a survival strategy that outlived its usefulness.
And we’re here to replace it—with structure.
What You Get When You Subscribe
Untrapped Curious (Free)
Select Untrapped Conversations episodes
Weekly essays naming the patterns you’ve been living
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Tools for the moment pressure hits:
Weekly playbooks, scripts, or nervous-system resets
Monthly Self-Trust Strategy Sessions (live)
Private chat + full archive
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Direct access + priority positioning:
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Early access to workshops and programs
Lifetime price lock
Your voice shapes what’s next
New here?
If you’re new, start with whatever post makes you feel seen. That’s not avoidance.
It’s your intuition warming up.
When you’re ready to go deeper, here’s a simple path forward:
Take the Self-Trust Stability Audit
A short check-in to help you see which pattern is shaping your decisions—and what it’s costing you.Subscribe for weekly self-trust support
Ongoing guidance to help you make choices you don’t have to talk yourself into.
No rush.
You’ll know when it’s time.