...to make caring for yourself
feel doable?
Lighten
the LOAD™
A 4-Week Virtual Experience for Women Ready to See What’s Using Up Their Energy, and Begin Making Room for Themselves
With Karin Del Maestro
October • Live on Zoom
$197 or 2 payments of $99
Already a Thrivership School member?
This experience is already included in your membership. 💜
Our October experience has begun.
If you’re wishing you’d joined us, join the waitlist and I’ll let you know when the next live dates are ready.
LET ME GUESS...
You WANT to take better care of your health.
But you’re trying to add those actions before addressing what's already using up your energy.
Maybe the load you've been carrying looks like this...
What if this October wasn't
about pushing through or hiding until all the pink has gone?
What if it was about carrying less, and feeling lighter?
Not fixing yourself or trying to become someone different. Not trying harder.
Just...
Putting a little of the weight down.
Imagine...
- Sitting outside with your morning coffee…and hearing the birds instead of mentally rehearsing the entire day.
- Leaving the dinner plates for a while, putting on your shoes and taking the walk you’ve been promising yourself.
- Resting for twenty minutes…without spending all twenty deciding whether you’ve earned it.
- Walking into your next follow-up appointment with some worry still there, but without it taking over the entire week beforehand.
- Noticing a new ache, pausing and taking one breath before your mind carries you straight to the worst-case scenario.
Those moments may seem ordinary.
But after everything you've been through...
They're extraordinary.
Because they don't feel like effort. They feel like...
Relief. And relief changes the load you're carrying.
WELCOME TO...
Lighten the LOAD™
For four weeks, we’ll start somewhere most advice about taking care of yourself doesn’t:
With what you’re already carrying.
Not by pushing you to do more or by asking you to be more motivated or disciplined.
And definitely NOT with another list of things you “should” be doing.
Together, we’ll begin noticing what is using up your energy, sorting what is yours from what isn’t, and gently putting something down.
One small, safe step at a time.
Imagine climbing into bed…and instead of replaying every conversation, every decision and everything you forgot to do…there is finally a little less to carry into the night.
Thanks to Karin and Lighten the LOAD...
"I now realize that I've been worrying like it's my job AND that I don't have to keep doing that!"
Hey I'm Karin,
For years...I thought recovery meant trying harder.
Eating better.
Exercising more.
Finding the "right" supplements.
Doing everything I could to stay healthy.
And every time I couldn't keep it all going...
I quietly wondered, "What's wrong with me?"
Then I realized something.
We've been taught recovery in the wrong order.
Most recovery advice asks,
"What should you do next?"
I think a better question is...
"What have you been carrying?"
Because after breast cancer, you're often carrying so much that no one else can see.
🎒 The fear that never seems to switch off.
🎒 The pressure to get back to normal.
🎒 The guilt when you need to rest.
🎒 The responsibility of holding everything together.
🎒 The little voice that whispers,
"You should be doing more."
No wonder everything feels harder than it should.
Not because you're failing.
Because you've been carrying a load that was never meant to be carried forever.
And here's the good news:
You don't have to empty the whole backpack.
You don't have to fix everything.
And you definitely don't have to “just let it go.”
Inside Lighten the LOAD™, we do something much gentler.
👀 We see it.
Because you can't put down a brick you don't know you're carrying.
Sometimes it's obvious. Sometimes it's something you've been doing for so long that you didn't even realize you had a choice.
🎒 We sort it.
What's actually yours to carry?
What belongs to someone else?
What are you carrying because you genuinely choose to...and what are you carrying because guilt, fear, habit or “but I could do it” keeps picking it back up?
💖 Then we safely put something down.
Not everything.
Something.
One request. One responsibility. One decision.
One brick you've been carrying that maybe doesn't need to come with you anymore.
Because the goal isn't to become even stronger at carrying a heavy life.
It's to create more room for the life you fought so hard to keep.
That's why I created Lighten the LOAD™
Not to give you more to do.
And definitely not to make you better at carrying everything you already are.
But to help create a little more room for you again.
Until you start noticing the small things...
You finish dinner and still have enough left in you for that short walk you keep promising yourself.
Your phone rings and you don't automatically assume you have to fix whatever is waiting on the other end.
You take an afternoon off without spending half of it thinking about what you should be doing.
You laugh with someone you love and realize, for a few minutes, you weren't thinking about cancer, work, your family, or the next thing that needs handling.
Your shoulders aren't permanently somewhere near your ears.
That "stress vest" around your rib cage starts to loosen.
And somewhere in the middle of ordinary life, you catch yourself thinking...
"Oh... there I am."
I'm starting to feel more like myself again.
That's the journey we'll take together this October.
HERE'S THE DETAILS...
I know that you
love
a good plan
FOUR LIVE 60-MINUTE SESSIONS
We'll come together on Zoom every Monday in October.
(Replays available if this time doesn't work for you)
Nothing to prepare. Bring yourself, your playbook & we'll do the rest together.
4:00 PM Eastern:00 PM Central
2:00 PM Mountain | 1:00 PM Pacific
You can check your timezone here: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
CAN'T JOIN LIVE?
You can still take part and get the full Lighten the LOAD™ experience. ❤️
You can move through the complete four-week experience on your own schedule. Each replay, Playbook exercise and repeatable process will be available through November 30.
You won’t be behind, and you won’t need to “catch up” before using what helps.
You don’t have to attend live to walk away with a system you can use again and again.
Lighten the load playbook
Your playbook for carrying less & feeling more like yourself again. Weekly reflections, gentle practices, and space to capture your own Relief Moments, this isn't another workbook to complete, it's a companion you'll return to whenever life starts feeling heavy again.
I THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH ME...
"I now realize my body isn't fighting me… it's been trying to tell me something. I thought something was wrong with me. Now I understand my body has been asking for safety all along."
LYNN B. - TN
I felt less alone
“Being with other women who understood helped me feel less alone. Lighten the LOAD™ helped me understand some of what I carry…and what I don’t need to carry.”
— Lori
Lighten the LOAD
A 4-week live experience for women after breast cancer that helps you see what’s already using up your energy, gently begin putting some of it down, and make room to care for yourself, too.
😮💨 Relief starts October 5th
Just one hour a week can begin changing how you carry the rest of your week.
Join Us Every Monday in October
4:00 PM ET • 1:00 PM PT
This will be our final Lighten the LOAD live experience of 2026.
I keep these groups intentionally small so there’s room for real conversation, reflection and support, so space for October is limited.
You'll Receive
💛 Four live Zoom, interactive 60-minute experiences where we'll gently put down one layer of the invisible load each week. Bring yourself, your playbook and we'll do the rest together.
📖 The Lighten the LOAD Playbook ~ your companion for the journey, filled with reflections, practical exercises, and gentle reminders to help you carry less and live more.❤️
🎥 Session replays will be available throughout the program and until November 30, 2026, so you can catch up if life gets life-y.
🧡 My Year of Calm Cards (included when you choose the pay-in-full option).
Carry Less Today
$197
One simple payment
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Four live Zoom, interactive 60-minute experiences
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The Lighten the LOAD Playbook
- Session replays will be available throughout the program and until November 30, 2026
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My Year of Calm Cards
(As a Thank You For Paying In Full)
One Step At a Time
$99
2 monthly payments
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our live Zoom, interactive 60-minute experiences
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The Lighten the LOAD Playbook
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Session replays will be available throughout the program and until November 30, 2026
Every week...
We'll put down one more thing survival taught you to carry.
Why these four weeks?
These aren't four random topics.
They're four of the biggest invisible loads I've watched women carry after breast cancer over the past six years.
Every week, we'll gently put down one more thing that life & survival taught you to carry.
WEEK 1 - WHAT AM I CARRYING THAT I DON'T HAVE TO?
Just because you can carry something doesn't mean you have to.
Being the one who fixes it. Keeping everyone happy. Saying yes because you could help. Being the strong one because you've always been the strong one.
Some things have been in your backpack for so long, you may not even realize putting them down is an option.
We'll start sorting what's yours to carry...and what isn't.
WEEK 2 - WHAT AM I DOING ON AUTOPILOT?
Sometimes you've said yes before you've even had time to think.
You fix it. Handle it. Keep the peace. Push through.
Not because it's what you want, but because it's what you've always done.
This week, we'll start noticing those automatic reactions and create a little more space to pause and choose what actually works for you.
WEEK 3 - WHAT'S TAKING UP SO MUCH SPACE IN MY HEAD?
If your brain feels like there are 4,367 tabs open...you're not alone.
Imagine walking into the grocery store...and remembering why you're there.
Finishing a movie...and realizing you actually followed the story.
Reading a few pages of a book...without having to start over.
Those moments may seem small. But when your brain has felt full for so long...they're anything but.
This week, we'll look at what's still taking up space in your head and start closing a few of those tabs.
WEEK 4 - WHO'S GOT THE MICROPHONE?
Maybe that voice has been there long before cancer.
"You should be doing more."
"You should be more disciplined."
"Why can't you get it together?"
"You should be further along by now."
After a while, you don't even question it. You just believe it.
This week, we'll notice who's been holding the microphone and start turning up the volume on a voice that's a whole lot kinder to you.
“Lighten the LOAD™ helped me realize that it’s okay to start putting down some of the things that aren’t my responsibility, without feeling bad.
I also realized that even before cancer, I was carrying too much.”
— Lighten the LOAD™ participant
You might recognize yourself here...
- You finally sit down...and within seconds you're thinking about six other things you should be doing.
- You walk into a room...and can't remember why.
- Someone says, "You look amazing!"...and you smile because it's easier than explaining how hard today has actually been.
- You notice a new ache...and your thoughts immediately go somewhere you wish they didn't.
- You wake up determined to have a good day...and by lunchtime you're wondering where your energy went.
- You cancel lunch with a friend because you're too tired to explain why you're tired.
- You can't remember the last time your mind felt quiet.
- You feel guilty resting.
- You feel guilty saying no.
- You feel guilty that you're not "back to normal".
- Sometimes...you quietly wonder..."Is this just my life now?"
If you found yourself whispering...
"That's me."
I'd love to spend October helping you carry a little less.
SOME MORE RELIEF MOMENTS...
I'M NOT AS MEAN TO MYSELF
"I hear myself talking kinder to myself now... Where I used to hear Karin calming me down, now I hear me."
JEANNE W. - CT
I'M NOT BROKEN
"I finally understand why I react the way I do. It's such a relief to realize that I'm not broken."
A.K. - CA
I'M NOT PUSHING THROUGH ANYMORE
"I'm finally listening to myself instead of just pushing through and abandoning myself."
B.C. - FL
"I'M SO RELIEVED THERE'S A REASON I FEEL LIKE THIS"
I'm ready to feel lighter today
By November...
What if taking care of yourself feels a little more doable?
You breathe a little deeper. You carry a little less.
And one day…Without even realizing it…
You catch yourself thinking…
“Oh…there I am.”
Imagine having enough room in your life to include yourself in the people you
take care of.
You don’t need another list of healthy things you should be doing.
You don’t need to promise yourself you’ll try harder next week.
You may simply need to start in a different place.
Let’s start with the load.
Together.
$197 or 2 payments of $99
Already a Thrivership School™ member?
You’re already in.
I’d love to spend October with you.
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