Hanging Up My Cape: How to be Your Own Superhero

Are you the strong one everyone depends on? The woman who gives and gives—until there’s nothing left for herself?

It’s time to hang up the cape… and finally choose you.

In Hanging Up My Cape: How to Be Your Own Superhero, author Sharmen Clark shares a raw and deeply moving journey through burnout, motherhood, marriage, family dysfunction, identity loss—and the radical, revolutionary act of self-reclamation.

Written from the heart of a middle-aged Black woman who has spent decades putting everyone else first, this book is a love letter to every woman who’s tired of sacrificing her own peace for the comfort of others. Through powerful storytelling, heartfelt truth-telling, and soul-level self-help wisdom, Hanging Up My Cape will walk with you as you:

✅ Confront emotional exhaustion and toxic expectations

✅ Unlearn the survival patterns that keep you stuck

✅ Reclaim your voice, your rest, and your personal power

✅ Learn how to mother yourself with softness and grace

✅ Create a life that honors your needs without apology

Whether you’re a wife, mother, daughter, caretaker, or leader—if you’ve ever felt invisible, overwhelmed, or just plain tired of being “the strong one,” this book is your permission slip to let go, breathe deep, and finally come home to yourself.

✨ Part memoir. Part mirror. All medicine!

You’re not broken. You’re just done pretending.

You don’t need to keep saving everyone.

You need to save the woman in the mirror.

It’s your turn now.