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Overcoming Loss and Systematic Burnout

From Survival to Sovereignty: A Woman's Journey of Reclaiming Her Power and Purpose

Jacquelyn René Elder
Jacquelyn René Elder
INNOVATIVE PRODUCT DESIGNER | FOUNDER -
ELDER DESIGN & FUZE~ION
Overcoming Loss and Systematic Burnout

My Story

I didn’t grow into my strength — I had to survive my way into it.

I grew up in an abusive home where my voice was either punished, dismissed, or rewritten for me. As an adult, I carried those patterns into my relationships: attaching myself to people who couldn’t love me, abandoning parts of myself to keep the peace, and shrinking so others could feel comfortable. I wasn’t living — I was enduring.

After leaving a relationship that broke me in ways I could barely articulate, I had to face a painful truth: I had spent years trying to convince someone to choose me while never truly choosing myself. That betrayal ignited an awakening in me. I realized I had two options — stay trapped in the cycle or become the woman who finally broke it.

So I rebuilt.

I rebuilt my boundaries.

I rebuilt my identity.

I rebuilt my life.

I’m now in the process of pioneering emotionally intelligent systems designed to guide women back to their altruistic, intuitive selves. I am building Elder Design, Fuze~ion, and ElderCodex.ai with nothing but determination and the hard truth that no one is coming to save me. Every step I take is a deliberate choice to stop living as the version trauma created — and to step into the woman I was always meant to become.

I learned to trust my intuition again.

I stopped apologizing for my gifts.

I stopped carrying responsibility for wounds I didn’t cause.

And for the first time in my life, I am choosing myself — fully, fiercely, without shrinking.

I am still in the messy middle. I don’t have a fairy-tale ending to present. But I turned my pain into purpose and my survival into sovereignty. And if someone else is standing in the dark, believing they’ll never find a way out, I want them to know this: you don’t need to have everything figured out to begin again. You only need to believe you are worth not staying where you are hurting.

Through the Sovereign Intelligence Collective, I guide women back to the intuition they buried, the power they forgot, and the sovereignty they were always meant to walk in. It is a space where ancient knowing and modern resilience meet — a return to the self we were never meant to abandon.

Instagram: @morticia007_design_UXUI

Website / Community: https://www.skool.com/the-sovereign-shift-3462/classroom

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