From Woe to WOW: How Resilient Women Succeed at Work
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"Are you dragging yourself to work because you don’t know what to do about your workplace or home challenges?
Continue reading to discover effective strategies used by resilient women to succeed at work! Discover,“You’re stronger than you think!”
You will benefit by:
Better protecting yourself from poor behavior of others
Better guarding your sanity and well being
More effectively communicating
Strengthening your personal and family life
Taking necessary action when the going gets tough
The results for you will be:
Clearer boundaries with others
Improved physical, emotional and mental heath
Problems solved, accepted as is or left behind
Improved relationships at work and home
Feeling empowered. Acting empowered
Success in your own terms
Message from: Patricia Morgan
Dear Friend,
You have probably had times when you asked yourself, “How will I ever get through this?” and you ended up proving to yourself that you were stronger than you thought. Yet, there are proven techniques that can help you better get through those inevitable days when you would benefit from a boost of encouragement, added confidence or simply a step by step solution.
Sometimes all you need is the little nudge that makes all the difference. Other times you may know what to do but a dose of inspiration would spark you into action.
You are not alone.
Consider some of these facts to validate your reality:
- More than a 1/3 of workers (35 percent) say their jobs are detrimental to their physical or emotional health and 42 percent say job pressures are interfering with their personal relationships; half say they have a more demanding workload this year than last. American Institute of Stress Jan. 13, 2009
- Fifty-seven percent of those who reported being targeted for bullying were women. Men are more likely to participate in aggressive bullying behavior (60 percent), however if the bully is a woman, her target is more likely to be a woman as well (71 percent). Workplace Bullying Institute, 2007
- The median weekly income of full-time working women is only 70.5 percent of full-time working men. Wikipedia, Oct. 23, 2009
- Less than one in five Canadians are highly engaged at work. Towers Perrin Study, 2005
- One in five Canadians will be affected by a mental illness. Canadian Mental Health
Who am I, Patricia Morgan, to speak and write on strengthening resilience?
Perhaps like you, I’ve irrationally questioned and doubted myself. Although I’ve worked with colleagues, managers and clients who behaved critically, abusively and sometimes unethically, my longest-lasting challenge has been as mother to our adopted daughter, Kelly, who as it turns out, has Partial Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Our story is thoroughly described in the book, Love Her As She Is: Lessons from a Daughter Stolen by Addictions. To summarize in her childhood years, we did not have the appropriate supports or knowledge to really be of help to her, to me or our family.
My professional identity as a college instructor and parent educator took a battering and my behavior at home became erratic. I detached with calm or lost my temper, withdrew or sought support, pleaded or screamed, sought answers or crumbled into a weeping heap. The distress on my body necessitated visits to the hospital for irritable bowel syndrome attacks, a cardiac arrhythmia attack and an overnight in the psychiatric ward.
That was before acquiring a degree in psychology, then a master’s degree in clinical psychology and hours, weeks and months at personal development retreats and trainings. My training includes family therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Assertiveness Training, Body Focused Psychotherapy, Contemplative Dialogue and dozens of other frameworks.
Since 1984 I have facilitated the healing and empowerment of countless women in shelters, support groups, psycho-educational groups, conferences and retreats.
My chronic mental, emotional and physical woes occurred before I boosted and boosted some more my own resolve and confidence—proving to myself over and over again that I was stronger than I thought.
You, too, can prove you are stronger than you think.
Loving our daughter under challenging circumstances and writing about it definitely strengthened my resilience. Then came other books such as Frantic Free and now From Woe to WOW. I was once asked how my readers and audiences were different after experiencing my work. I said, “They are more resilient.”
Resilience refers to people’s ability to cope with, adapt to and rise above hardship and crisis. It also refers to a cluster of protective factors or interdependent capacities which function like a reservoir of stress-hardiness resources. This quality eventually helped me and the women I write about bounce back or sustain wellness in the face of a wide range of personal, family and work challenges.
I became fascinated with this ability to recover or stay steady when the going gets tough. As a professional speaker I had the opportunity to ask audience members three questions which were given to me by mentor, Dr. Al Siebert, author of The Resiliency Advantage. You might want to ask yourself these questions as well.
- What is the worst work related experience you’ve endured?
- How did you cope?
- Looking back, what did you learn?
Three hundred and seventy-six women in my audiences took the time to respond to those questions and then I interviewed 27 women in North America who were identified as resilient women. Their stories are inspiring and enlightening. Add to the data and stories, research findings and processes used in women’s empowering circles and you end up with From Woe to WOW: How Resilient Women Succeed at Work.
From Woe to WOW is filled with inspirational examples of survival and thriving plus over 42 strategies to face tough situations. Here is what Dr. Siebert had to say about From Woe to WOW:
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“The perfect author to write this book: Patricia draws on per personal life experience and expertise in the field of human resiliency. The result is a resiliency program that covers emotional processes, inner complexities and relationship dynamics.”
Al Siebert, PhD, Director of the Resiliency Center and author of
The Survivor Personality and The Resiliency Advantage
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My commitment to you is to support and encourage you to discover, “You’re stronger than you think.”
Wow-Empowered Women’s stories will not only inspire you to sustain yourself they will provide you with unique solutions to the following woes:
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Internal Woes
- Self-Doubt
- Despair
- Guilt
- Workaholism
- Perfectionism
- Physical Limitations
- Having a Learning Difference
- Focus on Weaknesses
- Lack of Education and Experience
- Self-Silencing
. . . and more.
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External Woes
- Criticism
- Blame
- Verbal Abuse/Bullying
- Sexual Harassment/Assault
- Sexism
- Intolerance
- Moral Dilemma
- Business Betrayal
- Spousal Betrayal
- Caregiver Deman
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“In From Woe to WOW, Patricia Morgan aptly describes resilience-in-action, blending poignant stories of real women in real life situations with valuable tips, insightful exercises and strong advice. It's a worthy read!”
Janis Foord Kirk, author of Survivability, Career Strategies for the New World of Work
“I love Patricia Morgan’s book! It just flows! Extremely practical and touches the heart at the same time. I will definitely be encouraging many of my clients to order it.”
Susan MacCulloch, Psychologist
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By reading From Woe to WOW you will gain ways to:
- Better evaluate your own resilience--the routines and practises that sustain your well being and strengthen your resilience.
- Better observe your own home and family life and discover how healthy, empowering and supportive it is.
- Better observe your workplace’s capacity to strengthen resilience and discover how healthy, empowering and supportive it is.
But there is more.
You will have dozens of resiliency boosting strategies including:
- More effectively establish clear, personal and work boundaries.
- More effectively align with integrity.
- More effectively keep your humanness and avoid over emphasis on work.
- More effectively embrace your womanness and avoid some classic foibles of interacting with men at work.
- If a mother, more effectively attend to that role.
- More effectively choose your best life rhythm to establish better calm around work and home demands.
- Better familiarize yourself with protective workplace laws.
- More effectively put Pollyanna to shame and more often think optimistically.
- More effectively sweet-talk to yourself so you are undeniably there for yourself.
- More effectively honor your feelings so you remain authentic to yourself.
- More effectively move out of painful feelings so that you can better function.
- More effectively have a good cry and let go of internal tension.
- More quickly lighten up!
- More effectively attend to your physical well being.
- More effectively be a dear with two ears to listen well.
- More effectively speak up and assert yourself.
- More effectively breathe and get grounded.
- More effectively ease conflict.
- More effectively plan for resolution.
- More effectively filter critical criticism that is of no value to you.
- More effectively offer others helpful feedback.
- More effectively manage management.
- More effectively champion change and model successful adaptation.
- More effectively acknowledge and demonstrate your strengths.
- More effectively make up your mind and make a decision.
- More effectively demonstrate courage.
- More effectively decide to go back to school, or perhaps not.
- More effectively be laid off without laying down.
- More effectively quit or resign.
- More effectively give and receive acknowledgement.
- More effectively self promote.
- More effectively get a little help from your friends.
- More effectively nurture a supportive love relationship.
- More effectively create your village of support.
- More effectively give up a grudge.
- More effectively seek an inclusive and respectful workplace.
If you are asking, “How will I remember all of this?” From Woe to WOW is structured to be an easy resource allowing you to refer back to any one particular section for support and guidance.
From Woe to WOW is all about your resilience as a woman!
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To summarize what you will get From Woe to WOW:
You will receive over 35 years of my personal development experience, research and education in humanistic (positive) psychology and resilience.
You will also receive information, inspiration and do-able steps in 206 pages.
Here is the Table of Contents:
Part One: About Resilience
Part Two: Evaluate Your Resilience
- Internal Resilience
- External Support
- Resilience-Building Families and Homes
- Resilience-Building Workplaces
Part Three: Demonstrations of Resilience at Work
The Resilience-Generating Questions
Name Your Woes
- Internal Woes
- External Woes
WOW-Empowered Women
Woe to WOW Map
WOW-Empowered Stories
Internal Woes
External Woes
Part Four: Choose Your WOW Strategies
- Reservoir of WOW Strategies
One: Protect Your Inner WOW Woman
Two: Nurture Your WOWness
Three:Communicate with WOW Power
Four: Take WOW Action: You Can Do It!
Five: Connect for Added WOW Power
Endnotes
Resources
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“From start to finish, Patricia Morgan's Woe to WOW: How Resilient Women Succeed at Work is a jewel. Sharp, finely-honed, and brilliantly illuminating, Morgan helps women see their own reflections more clearly by showing them other ways to imagine the largest and smallest choices in their lives. Every page of this book offers wisdom, wit, and practical advice. WOW is right!"
Regina Barreca, PhD, author of They Used To Call Me Snow White But I Drifted
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Remember, “You’re stronger than you think."
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