Description
Thousands of professional women, though outwardly successful, find themselves in the midst of a crisis, believing that they’ve sacrificed meaning, fulfillment, and balance in their lives to achieve work-related success. Their lives feel unmanageable-and they are confused, blocked, overwhelmed and unable to move forward effectively. Kathy Caprino sheds light on this growing epidemic of disempowerment and shows women how to reinvigorate and reclaim their lives. Breakdown, Breakthrough uses a comprehensive coaching, behavioral, and spiritual framework to explore how women can restore their power and reconnect with their life visions as they awake from the paralysis of professional dissatisfaction and personal diminishment. Caprino outlines a new model for understanding disempowerment, one that focuses on women’s relationships with themselves, with others, with the world, and with what she calls their higher selves. She identifies twelve specific challenges professional women face and offers concrete, practical advice for overcoming each one-helping readers “step back, let go of what is holding them back, and say yes” to creating a compelling and rewarding next chapter of life and work. This is also a deeply personal book. Caprino candidly discusses her own struggles with crippling feelings of disempowerment, and shares moving stories and heartfelt advice gleaned from her interviews with over one hundred women who experienced and overcame the crises she describes. Breakdown, Breakthrough offers working women who are stressed, stuck, and dissatisfied access to new inspiration, hope, and a definite plan of action. Kathy Caprino is a life and executive coach, a career transition consultant, a speaker, and the founder/president of Ellia Communications, Inc. Part I: The Disempowerment Dilemma Chapter 1: When Things Fall Apart – How To Recognize We’re In Professional Crisis Chapter 2: Professional Disempowerment Crises in Mid-Life – The Full Terrain Chapter 3: Women are Different From Men – Stop Fighting It! Chapter 4: Are Women Truly Helping Each Other? Chapter 5: The Guide to Meaning Behind 12 Empowerment Syndromes Part II: The Syndromes Explored: 4 Key Categories 1: Disempowerment in the Interface Between Life and Work Chapter 6: “I Can’t Hold Things Together Any Longer” Chapter 7: “I Can’t Find a Way to Balance Work and Life” 2: Disempowerment in Self-Worth/Self-Acceptance/Life Meaning Chapter 8: “I Can’t Get Over This Loss” Chapter 9: “I Can’t Get Out of This Financial Trap” Chapter 10: “I Can’t Find Ways to Use My Real Talents” Chapter 11: “I Can’t Find Sustainable Ways to Help Others and the World” 3: Disempowerment from Suppression, Diminishment, and Being Cut off From Oneself Chapter 12: “I Can’t Speak Up Without Being Punished” Chapter 13: “I Can’t Stop the Abuse or Diminishment I’m Experiencing” Chapter 14: “I Can’t Resolve My Health Problems” 4: Values Disempowerment Chapter 15: “I Can’t Keep Up with This Competition” Chapter 16: “I Can’t Stand Who I’ve Become” Chapter 17: “I Can’t Find or Do Work that I Love” Summary Chapter 18: Some of the Best Advice You’ll Ever Hear Chapter 19: Burning Questions to Ponder Recommended reading and resources
