About the Book

Putting Down the Cape is a sacred invitation to release the weight of over-functioning and reclaim the fullness of your humanity.

Written from lived experience, this book speaks directly to women who have mastered strength but quietly wrestle with exhaustion. It is for the woman who has been dependable, resilient, and spiritually grounded — yet privately depleted. For the one who has carried family, ministry, workplace, and community expectations as if they were divinely assigned.

In these pages, Rev. Tamira D. Wimbish Valley gently dismantles the myth of the “unbreakable woman” and exposes the cost of inherited strength narratives. Through storytelling, theological reflection, and practical insight, she creates space for readers to examine what they are carrying — and why.

Putting Down the Cape is not about doing less.

It is about discerning clearly.

It is about separating calling from compulsion.
Assignment from assumption.
Faithfulness from fear-driven overextension.

This book gives language to what many women have felt but could not articulate — the quiet erosion that happens when capacity becomes obligation and rest feels irresponsible.

It invites readers into rest without guilt.
Into softness without shame.
Into leadership without self-abandonment.

What began as a personal reckoning has grown into something larger.

The message of Putting Down the Cape laid the foundation for what is now known as the Putting Down the Cape Leadership Sustainability Model™ — a spiritually grounded, psychologically informed framework designed to dismantle over-functioning culture and build sustainable leadership architecture for high-capacity women across ministry, marketplace, and organizational contexts.

The book is the awakening.
The model is the architecture.

Together, they form a pathway from survival to sustainability.

If you are ready to release what was never yours to carry and rebuild your life and leadership on clarity rather than compulsion, this journey begins here.