Inner Child Work for Women in the Corporate World

Spread Your Wings

Coming soon! A workshop for women who confront external and internalized sexism in the workplace. So often, I have heard women who have achieved a high level of accomplishment in the corporate world describe to me being expected to lead without offending, to keep boundaries and expectations for employees without ever criticizing or sounding harsh. I wonder if men get these same expectations; I suspect not. I don't hear it from them. I think the bitch/pushover axis or binary is mostly for women. If we are strong and competent enough, we are perceived as bitchy or bossy. It's not ok for us to be direct or to criticize. And yet, if we are not strong and direct, men in the workplace have a tendency to step all over us and get promoted on the strength of our work.(Not all men; do I need to say that?) .

What I see over and over again as the most exhausting aspect of this is the internal struggle these women in the corporate world have with themselves. Am I a bitch? Am I too controlling? Why don't they listen to me? Am I too soft? I don't have the answers for how to act in the boardroom, but I can help release and heal the triggers that this dynamic sets off from what we were taught in childhood and in school.

Did you have a parent who told you ladies don't speak up? Or a teacher who favored the boys even when the girls knew the material better? Did you get lectured from the pulpit about the role of women? Did you learn certain things from the power balance between your parents?

These are internal memories and programs which can be addressed and to some extent healed, so that the next time you face sexism in the boardroom, you have only that person to contend with, not your internal triggers. Let me know if this interests you.

It is work which can also be done one on one.