Speaking

________________________________ Speaker & Author

Patrice
Flanagan-Morris

LCSW|Brainspotting Practitioner|Nervous System Educator

“Because when people understand why they struggle — they stop surviving their lives and start enjoying them.”

Patrice brings something most speakers can't: dual authority — the clinical training to explain what's happening in the brain and body, and the personal honesty of someone who has lived every word of it. Her audiences don't just leave informed. They leave seen.

“Patrice does not speak from a place of having it all figured out. She speaks from the place of someone always learning.”

With the clinical knowledge to explain what’s happening, the personal honesty to name it, and the warmth to make every woman in the room feel genuinely seen — Patrice brings something rare to the stage: dual authority. The training to explain the mechanism, and the lived experience to make it land.

Published Author

Too Busy to Breathe

A map for the high-achieving, anxious, perfectionist person who is tired of surviving their life and ready to actually live it. Blending personal story with nervous system science — written by someone who lived every page of it.

Patrice Speaks To

Those who have it all together on the outside but are quietly unraveling on the inside. She shows up in every industry, every role, every stage of life — and is often found in rooms of:

• Women’s leadership conferences
• Healthcare & mental health professionals
• Women in business & entrepreneurship
• Corporate wellness & HR events
• Maternal mental health events
• Faith communities
• Women’s retreats
• University & graduate school settings
• Therapy & coaching communities
• Mom & parenting groups
• Workplace ERGs for women
• Clinical conferences & CEU trainings

Moving Through Instead of Around

Healing isn't about getting around the hard thing- it's about letting that hard thing change you. Patrice draws on post-traumatic growth research and her own story to show what it actually looks like to move through hardship in a way that builds empowerment instead of leaving you stuck.

The Armor You Built

Patterns of Protection & Their Antidotes 

Every pattern of protection made sense once. Patrice names the most common ways high-achieving people learned to armor up- overintellectualizing, fawning, perfectionism, compartmentalizing  and, more importantly, the antidote to each one.

Leaning Out of Perfectionism

Perfectionism isn't your high standards — it's the story your nervous system tells you about what happens if you don't meet them. Patrice offers a reframe that doesn't ask women to lower their standards, but to stop using fear as their fuel.

Too Busy to Breathe

Why high-functioning individuals are running on empty and what's actually happening in the brain and body. Patrice breaks down the science of sympathetic overdrive, nervous system states, and patterns of protection in a way that finally makes it all make sense.