Do you feel like you carry everyone in your life on your shoulders?
Do your responsibilities to others leave you feeling like this pug?
Are you looking for a way to balance yourself and others' needs?
In this session, we'll discuss...
Why people with Quirky Minds tend to take on too much responsibility for others.
Three science-backed models that help us understand the balance between responsibility, compassion, and control.
A new way to combining these models which will allow you to shift out of overwhelm and away from the standard options of fight/flight/freeze/people please.
What to do with the answers you get from these questions so you can actually make change in your relationships.
How to build flexible connection with yourself and others without sacrificing your own well-being.
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I'm Whit, and Quirky People Are My People
I'm Whit Davison, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Kansas City, Missouri, and I specialize in treating severe anxiety, complex trauma, and dissociation. In working with many of these clients, I came to understand that most of the time,"standard" self-help didn't actually help. Sometimes "standard" interventions even made things worse. I realized that the minds of people with severe anxiety and dissociation are different, even after treatment and they are "well."
This workshop shares one of my favorite ways to work with relationship overwhelm in a concrete, easy-to-do format. It works with the way Quirky Minds respond to overwhelm instead of against it.
Frequently Asked Questions
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1. What is this workshop about?
This workshop covers one of the most frequent problems people with Quirky Minds face: how to care without carrying everyone else’s load.
2. Who is it for?
It’s for anyone who feels responsible for fixing other people’s problems, managing everyone’s emotions, or holding things together when no one else will.
3. Why do people with Quirky Minds take on too much?
It usually started as survival. When you’ve lived through stress, trauma, or chaos, taking responsibility can feel like safety. We’ll unpack how that happens—and how to step into a more balanced, grounded way of caring.
4. What ideas does the workshop draw from?
You’ll learn about circles of influence, circles of relationships, and ring theory, and combine them into one model that shows who and what you’re truly responsible for, and where to let go. It’s about gaining the freedom to choose what matters most instead of reacting out of guilt or habit.
5. How is this different from other stress or trauma workshops?
Instead of teaching surface-level coping strategies, we’ll look at how to shift out of overwhelm and move beyond the fight, flight, freeze, or people-please responses that keep you stuck.
6. What will I actually learn to do?
You’ll learn how to apply these ideas to real-life situations—so you can respond with clarity, compassion, and confidence instead of overthinking, overhelping, or overcommitting.
7. What does “building flexible connection” mean?
It means staying connected to yourself and others at the same time. You’ll discover how to show up with care and empathy without losing your own energy or sense of peace.
8. “I'm one of your clients/a former client, is this something I can use?”
That's up to you! I guarantee we've talked about this before, but I've tried to simplify and streamline the idea in a way that really makes the concept work.