Lisa Randazzo

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I’ve been a little quiet over here lately — but this has been sitting with me and I wanted to share it.When I went back ...
05/19/2026

I’ve been a little quiet over here lately — but this has been sitting with me and I wanted to share it.

When I went back to work at three months postpartum, a friend made a passing comment — “our babies need us” — and I felt it in my body before I even processed it. That specific dread of someone confirming your worst fear out loud.

I was already deep in it. The postpartum fog, the mom guilt, that particular vulnerability of early motherhood where you’re constantly scanning everyone around you for whether you’re doing it right.

I was so wide open that one sentence from someone who meant no harm at all reshaped my entire sense of myself for longer than I’d like to admit.

I think about that moment often — not with anger toward her, but with a lot of tenderness toward the version of me who was carrying so much and had so little protection against the weight of other people’s words during that season of life.

Being a highly sensitive person in a season that asks everything of you is its own kind of hard. I was born absorbing everything, and already questioning whether it was okay to want my career and my own identity separate from being a mother. Her comment felt like a verdict had been reached.

My son is almost 2.5 now and I feel like I’m finally finding my footing — in motherhood, in my ambitions, and in how the two actually coexist. It hasn’t been a straight line, and I work at it every day.

Did anyone else experience something like this? A moment where you felt the tension between who you were before becoming a mom and who you felt like you were supposed to become? I think this is such an important conversation that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.

So let’s talk about it.👇🏼

P.S. Here’s my Jack at 4 months 🥰

05/07/2026

If I could shout one thing from the rooftops to my fellow highly sensitive women — it’s that you carry something so special, and you don’t even have to try.

For years I thought I was too much. Broken somehow. It made me feel so weak, like I couldn’t handle the world the way everyone else could. Like everyone was getting something I wasn’t.

I eventually went on my own therapy journey. And I came out the other side truly at peace with who I am. Proud of how deeply I feel. Knowing I’m deserving of big things and surrounded by people who genuinely appreciate me.

That’s what I want for you.

The Connected Collective is a group space for highly sensitive, ambitious women who are ready to feel just that — at peace with who they are, deserving of more, and surrounded by women who get it.

Applications open Monday. I would love for you to join us. Link in bio. 🤍

She’s not hard to love. She’s just never been in the right space.Every woman who finds The Connected Collective arrives ...
05/03/2026

She’s not hard to love. She’s just never been in the right space.

Every woman who finds The Connected Collective arrives a little differently — different story, different coping style, different reason she finally said yes to herself.

But underneath it all? The same thing. A woman who has spent years being deeply attuned to everyone around her, and almost completely invisible to herself.

If you saw yourself in one of these archetypes, I want you to know: that recognition you just felt? That’s exactly what happens every single week inside this program. A room full of women going — ‘wait, me too.’

You don’t have to keep being the only one who gets it.

The Connected Collective opens for applications May 12. 🔗 Link in bio for the alllll the info.

You hold it together so well that most people have no idea.No idea that you rehearsed what you were going to say before ...
04/30/2026

You hold it together so well that most people have no idea.

No idea that you rehearsed what you were going to say before sending that voice note. That you apologized for being ‘too much’ — and then secretly resented the people who agreed. That you’ve done the therapy, the journaling, the self-help deep dives… and still feel like the most exhausting person in your relationships.

This isn’t a character flaw. It’s a pattern. And it makes complete sense given what you learned early about what it meant to be ‘too much.’

The Connected Collective is an 8-week virtual group program for highly sensitive, ambitious women who are done white-knuckling their way through relationships alone.

If you checked more than two of these — you’re exactly who I built this for.

Applications open May 12. Link in bio to learn more.

04/27/2026

Hot take: a lot of what we call ‘being a good partner’ is actually fawn response in disguise. Here’s how to tell the difference.

Fawn doesn’t always look like cowering. Sometimes it looks like being the most thoughtful person in the room. The one who always knows what everyone needs. The one who never makes it about herself.

If you consistently feel resentment after ‘being kind,’ exhaustion after ‘showing up,’ or relief — not connection — when conflict ends... that’s worth looking at.

You’re not broken. You just learned that love required self-erasure. And that was never true.

This is the work we do in The Connected Collective — learning to tell the difference between genuine care and the survival strategy you’ve been calling love.

Applications open May 12. Link in bio to get on the waitlist. 🔗

Share this with a friend who needs to untangle this. 👯‍♀️

04/22/2026

I’ve been building something.

For the woman who is brilliant, driven, and quietly exhausted from showing up everywhere except fully as herself.

For the woman who keeps getting close to the bigger life — the ask, the launch, the leap — and pulling back.

For the woman who has done the work and still wonders why it hasn’t fully landed yet.

The Connected Collective is an 8-week virtual group program for highly sensitive, high-achieving women who are ready to stop shrinking — in their relationships, their work, and their lives.

Small group. Real attachment work. In-person closing retreat in NYC.

Applications open May 12. Founding cohort only.

If something in you just exhaled reading this — that’s the sign. Link in bio to learn more and get on the waitlist. 🔗

You replay the conversation on your walk home.Then again in the shower.Then once more before bed… just to make sure you ...
04/10/2026

You replay the conversation on your walk home.
Then again in the shower.
Then once more before bed… just to make sure you didn’t “mess it up.”

You catch the micro-expression.
The pause.
The tone shift that no one else seemed to notice.

And suddenly it’s not just a moment anymore,
that’s straight up evidence.

That you were too much.
Too honest.
Too visible.

So you go quiet.

Not because you have nothing to say,
but because your nervous system learned
that being fully seen could cost you connection.

This isn’t overthinking.
This is a highly attuned system
trying to keep you safe in relationships.

And the shift isn’t to “get out of your head” —
it’s to help your body learn that being seen
isn’t dangerous anymore.

That’s the work.

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Comment SEEN and I’ll send you my baby steps to feeling safe being seen
(or save this for the next post-conversation spiral)

04/02/2026

You don’t need more confidence—
you need to feel safe being seen.

Because you are confident—
in putting together a boss deck that nails exactly what your client needs,
in knowing when to check in on a friend before they even say they’re struggling,
in being the one people rely on to handle things, fix things, hold things together.

And then suddenly… you’re in a moment where it actually matters.

You had a clear point…
and then added, “but I could be wrong” before you even finished it.

You started to disagree…
and heard yourself say, “wait no yeah that makes sense” mid-sentence.

You gave your boundary…
and immediately followed it with a long explanation so they’d still think you’re reasonable.

Comment SEEN and I’ll send you my free guide with baby steps to feel safe speaking up, setting boundaries, and being seen.

That’s not a confidence issue.
It’s your nervous system reading being seen as unsafe.
And that’s something you can actually change.

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