I Built a Monster And I Didn't Know How To Stop It.

I remember the thrill of launching my membership. The rush of seeing those first women join. Then 50. Then 100. Then 120. In some ways it grew slowly but in other ways it grew so fast.

✨ I had built something powerful. A space for women to grow, learn, and thrive. And every single month, I poured everything into it—planning, delivering, showing up, supporting. Watching the numbers climb felt like proof that I was doing something right.

Until I realized… I had created something that was swallowing me whole.

Because with every new member came more questions. More requests. More pressure. More of me being pulled in a hundred different directions.

💡 And suddenly, I wasn’t just running a membership. I was on call 24/7.

No matter how much I gave, there was always someone who needed more. And I wanted to be there for them—I needed to be. But slowly, I felt it happening…

The exhaustion.
The overwhelm.
The cracks appearing in my energy, my creativity, my ability to hold space.

I pushed through. Because that’s what we do, right? We soldier on. We tell ourselves, just keep going.

Until one day, on a Zoom call with my members… I broke down.

I had given so much of myself that I had nothing left. And in that moment, I knew: I had to walk away.

💔 Closing the membership wasn’t easy. It felt like letting people down. Like failing. But the truth? The real failure would have been continuing to run it at the cost of my own well-being.

🔥 If you’re building something right now that feels like it’s running you instead of the other way around—hear me when I say this: It’s okay to step back. It’s okay to shift. It’s okay to choose YOU.

Have you ever built something that started to take over your life? Let’s talk in the comments. ⬇️

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