SOFT POWER WOMEN’S GROUP
You learned to stay small to feel loved. This group is where that ends.
Soft Power Women's Group is a virtual therapy group for women who've mastered showing up for everyone else but struggle to show up for themselves without guilt. This group is for women who avoid conflict to keep the peace, who downplay their needs so they don't seem like a burden, and who know what they need to change but keep getting stuck in the same cycles.
Virtual · open to women across Texas · launching soon
If you prevent conflict, overthink, over-give, or feel guilty having needs — you belong here.
You have spent a long time reading every room before you enter it. Measuring your words before you speak. Absorbing more than your share so that nothing blows up. You have learned — somewhere along the way, probably early — that the way to feel loved is to stay small.
And it has worked. You are still here. You are holding things together. But the cost of it is accumulating somewhere, and you are increasingly aware of what it is costing you.
Together, we will build nervous system steadiness, boundaries without guilt, and clear communication — so you can trust yourself, protect your energy, and create more mutual relationships. Not by becoming a different person. By finally having room to be the one you actually are.
Soft power is not weakness. It is knowing what you carry — and choosing what to set down.
WHO THIS GROUP IS FOR
For women who have made themselves smaller to keep the peace.
01 The woman who prevents conflict at all costs
You see it coming from a mile away and you adjust — your words, your tone, your needs — before it ever arrives. You are exhausted from managing something that was never yours to manage alone.
02 The woman who over-gives until she disappears
You give your time, your energy, your patience — and then feel guilty when there is nothing left. Asking for what you need feels selfish. You are not sure when that became true.
03 The woman who feels guilty for having needs at all
You have internalized the idea that your feelings are a burden, your wants are too much, and your boundaries are a form of failure. You have spent years earning love you should have simply had.
04 The woman whose faith has been used to keep her compliant
You have been told that submission is love, silence is peace, and staying is faithfulness. You are not sure where your faith ends and the control begins — and you have no one who will sit with that question honestly.
05 The woman who has no one to be honest with
Your community would redirect you. Your family would worry. Your friends do not quite understand. You need a space with women who already know what it feels like — without having to explain it first.
WHAT YOU WILL BUILD IN THIS GROUP
Nervous system steadiness. Boundaries without guilt. Trust in yourself.
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Nervous system steadiness
Learning to stay regulated when you are used to scanning for danger so you can respond instead of react.
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Boundaries without guilt
Understanding what you actually need, saying it clearly, and not apologizing for it, even when it is uncomfortable.
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Clear communication
Saying what is true without managing how it lands for everyone in the room before you say it.
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More mutual relationships
Recognizing what reciprocity actually looks like — and learning to expect it without guilt.
A SPECIFIC NOTE FOR WOMEN IN SPIRITUALLY MANIPULATIVE MARRIAGES
Faith does not require you to disappear into someone else's control.
For some women in this group, the staying small has a theological framework around it. You have been told that your submission is God's design. That your feelings are rebellion. That questioning is faithlessness. That leaving (even for your own safety) would be a betrayal of your vows and your faith.
This group will not tell you what to do about your marriage. It will not tell you that your faith is wrong. What it will do is create enough space for you to hear your own thoughts clearly, to separate what is genuinely yours from what has been used against you.
"Recognizing the harm is not a betrayal of your marriage. It is an act of honesty."
I bring both clinical training and my own faith context to this work. You do not have to explain why leaving is complicated. You just have to be willing to be honest.
GROUP DETAILS
What to expect when you join.
GROUP NAME
Soft Power Women's Group
Facilitated by Ra'Shunda Adams, LMFT-Associate
LAUNCH DATE
Summer 2026
Waitlist open now · limited seats
SESSION LENGTH
6 Sessions/60 min
Bi-weekly · Mondays @ 11am or Tuesdays @ 6pm
FORMAT
Virtual therapy group
Secure telehealth · women across Texas
GROUP SIZE
Small & closed
Limited for confidentiality and depth
INVESTMENT
$50 per session
Cash pay · due at time of session
COMMON QUESTIONS
Before you join the waitlist.
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No. The group is open to all women navigating the patterns described — over-giving, conflict prevention, guilt around needs. The spiritual manipulation lane is addressed within the group for those it applies to, but it is not a requirement for participation.
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Individual therapy is one-on-one work focused entirely on you. This group adds something different — the experience of being witnessed by other women who understand the same patterns, without having to explain yourself from the beginning. Both can run at the same time and often complement each other.
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Yes. All members are required to maintain confidentiality about other members. The specifics are covered during the intake call before the group begins. Standard legal and ethical exceptions apply, as with all therapy.
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No. The group is a standalone service. That said, many women find that having both gives them more support — individual therapy gives you a private space to process what comes up in group without managing how it lands for others.
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You will receive details about the group — schedule, investment, and next steps — before the group launches. A brief intake call is required before joining to confirm the group is the right fit. There is no commitment in joining the waitlist.
You do not have to keep carrying this alone — or keep calling it something other than what it is.
SPOTS ARE OPEN
Add your name to the waitlist. You will be the first to receive details before the group launches. No commitment required.