31 May Telluride Library: “The Box: How Anxiety, Perfectionism, and People-Pleasing Kept Me Trapped,.” 6/8!
Join Telluride Wilkinson Public Library on Monday, June 8th at 5:30 for a talk by well-being strategist, high-performance coach, bestselling author, and speaker Wendy Robbins!
You built the walls. You have the key.
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What if the anxiety, perfectionism, and people-pleasing you’ve spent your life managing aren’t your greatest liabilities — but your biggest untapped assets?
For over 40 years, Wendy Tamis Robbins hid in plain sight. From the outside, she had everything: Ivy-League grad, Div. 1 Athlete, Big Law attorney. On the inside, she was living with chronic anxiety, OCD, panic disorder, depression, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation — managing it all behind a flawless performance of having it all together.
Then came a colon cancer diagnosis. And instead of breaking her, it broke her open. Wendy left her 26-year legal career, founded a thriving coaching community for professional women, wrote a bestselling book, and stepped onto international stages to share the story she once thought would destroy her.
“The Box” is a 90-minute experience built from that journey — equal parts honest storytelling, practical framework, and actionable tools. Wendy draws on her proprietary frameworks — including the Anxiety Archetypes, the Anxiety Advantage™, and Sustainable High Performace — to show you not just what she did, but precisely how you can do it too.
IN THIS SESSION, YOU WILL…
• Acknowledge your box
• Identify its walls – fears, patterns, and beliefs that quietly driving your choices
• Understand your anxiety through a neuroscience lens and learn how to regulate it
• Discover how to interpret anxiety’s messaging and what it’s been trying to tell you all along
• Get clear on your values and where you’ve been living in conflict with them
• Take one brave step
This is not a program you attend and forget. It’s the day you see something you can never unsee and decide to set yourself free!
You’ll leave with a concrete, personal commitment — not a to-do list, but a direction. The first step toward a life you want to live fully, not hide from. This is not a program you attend and forget. It’s the day you see something you can never unsee and decide to set yourself free.
Wendy Tamis Robbins is a certified well-being strategist, high-performance coach, bestselling author, and speaker whose work has reached thousands globally through institutions including Harvard Law School, the BBC Global Leadership Team, the Truist Leadership Institute, and top firms across various industries. She’s appeared as an anxiety expert on NBC and Fox News, hosts the Perfectly Pan!cked podcast, and is the founder of CAVE Club — a coaching community exclusively for professional women. Her writing has appeared in ThriveGlobal, Law360, the ABA Journal, and beyond.
Every attendee receives a signed copy of Wendy’s bestselling book, “The Box: An Invitation to Freedom from Anxiety.”
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU IF
… You’ve achieved more than most — and still feel like something essential is missing. You’re exhausted by the performance of being fine and grateful. You’ve sensed for a while that the life you’re living and the life you were meant to live aren’t quite the same thing. And you’re ready — maybe just barely, but ready — to find out what’s on the other side of the box.
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