About this book
Are you feeling emotionally exhausted? Do you worry about being likable (at all cost)? Are you trying to do it all and be it allā all the time? This radically different self-care guide will help you find the courage needed to express your deepest needs, nurture self-awareness, and be yourself in a world that expects you to be everything to everyone.
If you're like countless other women today, you probably feel overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, anxious, stressed, frustrated, or unsatisfied. Or all of the above! In addition to managing your own career and running a household, you may be taking on an abundance of emotional labor ātending to others' needs at the expense of your own. If you've spent your whole life trying to please and manage other peoples' experience, it's time to speak your truth out loud, stand in your own shoes, and live an authentic lifeārather than just behave.
Written by therapist and spiritual teacher Nancy Colier, The Emotionally Exhausted Woman offers the validation, emotional support, and empowering skills you've been craving. You'll discover insights grounded in self-respect and awareness, to help you be on your own side and uncover your deepest psychological, spiritual, and emotional needs without feeling guilt, shame, or judgment. You'll learn why you are feeling depleted, why you take care of others at the expense of taking care of yourself, and how to develop a deeper form of self-care beyond the temporary respite of a spa retreat, bubble bath, or manicure. Finally, you'll nurture greater awareness of what you truly need to achieve lasting vitality and fulfillment.
As women, we are culturally conditioned to believe that we should be able to do it all and should be all things to all peopleāall while smiling, looking perfect, and needing nothing for ourselves. At the end of the day, these pressures can leave us feeling depletedāin body, mind, and spirit. So, how can you start taking care of you in a deeper way? This empowering guide will help you gain a newfound awareness of your own needs, and find the courage to live a life that both nourishes and inspires you.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: Whoās Taking Care of You?
- 1. Where Did We Go? The Likability Cage
- 2. Culture: Enforcing the Woman Not to Be
- 3. Family: Learning to Need (And Not Need)
- 4. Core Beliefs
- 5. The Self-Care āSolutionā
- 6. Self-Care As a Doorway to Our Deeper Needs
- 7. A Caring Relationship with All of You
- 8. Reclaiming Yourself
- 9. Telling Your Truth
- 10. Writing Your Own Story
- 11. Replenished: Standing in Your Own Shoes
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
- About the Author