FOUNDING RATE: $49 through October 6 · Teaching replay included
Live Online Workshop · 90 Minutes

Care Without Carrying

How to Love People Without Losing Yourself

For people who care deeply, give generously, and are ready to stop carrying responsibility that was never theirs.

📅 Tuesday, October 27, 2026 🕗 8:00–9:30 PM Eastern 💻 Live Online 7:00 PM Central · 6:00 PM Mountain · 5:00 PM Pacific
$49
Founding rate through October 6. Then $79.
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Live workshop · Workbook · Teaching outline · Seven-day action plan · 30-day replay of the teaching portion
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Shane McDonald
Shane McDonald, MS, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Professional Coach Founder · LifeTrends Counseling & Coaching
When caring becomes carrying

You can love people without losing your peace.

Caring becomes costly when support quietly turns into responsibility for someone else’s emotions, decisions, or outcomes.

You feel guilty when you say no or choose yourself.
You carry more than your share in relationships.
You help until exhaustion or resentment begins to grow.
You struggle to know where your responsibility ends.
The LifeTrends Framework

Mine. Theirs. Ours.

A simple, memorable lens for bringing greater clarity to complicated relationships.

MINE
THEIRS
OURS

During the workshop, Shane will introduce this practical framework to help you sort responsibility, protect connection, and choose healthier next steps—without becoming cold, detached, or controlling.

What You’ll Walk Away With

Clarity you can use in real life.

This workshop is designed to help you understand your patterns and leave with a practical next step—not just more information.

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Recognize when care has crossed into carrying.
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Gain greater clarity about responsibility in relationships.
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Respond to guilt and emotional pressure more intentionally.
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Communicate healthy limits without abandoning compassion.
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Choose one realistic next step to begin practicing immediately.
The 90-Minute Experience

Focused, interactive, and practical.

You can participate at your comfort level. Cameras and personal sharing are optional.

Focused Teaching

A clear, engaging introduction to the Care Without Carrying framework and why it matters.

Guided Reflection

Private prompts that help you connect the material to one real relationship or situation.

Live Q&A

Educational responses to common questions, with practical application and next steps.

Your Registration Includes

More than one evening of teaching.

Everything is designed to help you revisit, reflect, and put the workshop into practice.

90-Minute Live Workshop

Teaching, reflection, and Q&A.

Downloadable Workbook

Guided reflection and notes.

Teaching Outline

A concise summary to revisit.

Seven-Day Action Plan

A practical step after the workshop.

30-Day Teaching Replay

Revisit the teaching portion for 30 days after the workshop.

Shane McDonald, workshop facilitator

Shane McDonald

Licensed Mental Health Counselor · Certified Professional Coach · Keynote Speaker

Founder · LifeTrends Counseling & Coaching
Your Facilitator

Practical tools. Honest conversations. Real growth.

Shane is the founder of LifeTrends Counseling & Coaching and has years of experience helping individuals, couples, families, leaders, and professionals strengthen emotional health, relationships, personal responsibility, and healthy boundaries.

His work integrates practical mental-health tools, coaching principles, biblical wisdom, and faith-based teaching through counseling, workshops, retreats, conferences, and keynote speaking.

Tuesday, October 27 · 8:00 PM Eastern

Reserve your seat.

$49

Founding rate through October 6. Regular registration is $79.

  • 90-minute live online workshop
  • Downloadable workbook and teaching outline
  • Seven-day action plan
  • Live Q&A
  • 30-day access to the teaching portion replay
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Frequently Asked Questions

Before you register.

Is this workshop therapy?

No. This is an educational and personal-development workshop. It is not psychotherapy, diagnosis, crisis care, or a substitute for individualized mental-health treatment. Participation does not create a therapist-client relationship.

Do I have to be a Christian to attend?

No. The workshop is accessible to people of every faith background and to those who do not identify with a faith tradition. Biblical wisdom may be included as one meaningful lens within broadly applicable teaching.

What if I cannot attend live?

Register anyway. Every registrant receives access to a replay of the teaching portion and the workshop resources. The teaching replay remains available for 30 days after the workshop.

Do I have to share personal information?

No. Personal disclosure is optional. You may participate through private reflection, chat, polls, or simply listening. Your camera may remain off.

Can couples attend?

Yes. The workshop may be helpful individually or as a couple. Each participant should register separately to receive individual access and materials.

Can access or the replay be shared?

Registration, live access, resources, and teaching-replay access are for the registered participant and may not be posted, forwarded, reproduced, or shared.

What is the refund policy?

Registrations are non-refundable, but a seat may be transferred to another adult up to 24 hours before the workshop by contacting shane@lifetrendscounseling.com.

Care Without Carrying

Love people without losing yourself.

Step into greater clarity, healthier responsibility, and a more sustainable way to care.

Yes — Reserve My Seat for $49
Care Without Carrying is an educational and personal-development workshop for adults 18+. It does not provide psychotherapy, medical treatment, diagnosis, crisis intervention, or individualized clinical advice. Participation does not establish a therapist-client relationship with Shane McDonald or LifeTrends Counseling & Coaching, LLC. If you are experiencing an emergency or immediate danger, contact appropriate emergency services in your area. Please avoid sharing private or identifying clinical information during the live Q&A. The teaching portion of the workshop will be recorded for the 30-day replay; the live Q&A will not be included.