The Type E* Woman: How to Overcome the Stress of Being Everything to Everybody - Softcover

Braiker, Harriet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595222730 ISBN 13: 9780595222735

Publisher: iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

The high-achieving Type E woman-the woman who is trying to excel in multiple roles and be everything to everybody-is the victim of her own success. The more she shows she can do, the more others demand of her. And the cost to her physical and mental health can be enormous. By understanding the conflicts underlying Type E behavior, and by adopting Dr. Braiker's Type E stress management program, women can be successful without killing themselves by trying to do and have it all. In addition to exposing the Everything-to-Everybody stress syndrome and examining its psychological causes, Dr. Harriet Braiker, who first identified Type E, shows how to tell if you are a Type E woman, gives strategies and exercises to build better stress resistance, and presents a 21-Day Mental Workout Training Program to help manage the barrage of demands that threaten to overwhelm Type E women. The Type E Woman is the book for all women who strive to achieve in and outside of the workplace-for women of any age, in any position of life. It is for every woman trying to juggle multiple roles, as the majority of women today do.

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About the Author

Bestselling author Dr. Harriet B. Braiker has been a practicing clinical psychologist and management consultant in Los Angeles for more than 25 years. A much in-demand public speaker, she is the author of several highly successful popular psychology books, including The New York Times' Bestseller, The Disease To Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome (www.diseasetoplease.com). She is an award-winning writer who has also been a contributing editor and columnist for Working Woman and Lear's, and has also written for many other national women's magazines. Dr. Braiker has appeared many times on such shows as Oprah, The Today Show, Larry King, Live With Regis and Kathy Lee, the NBC News with Tom Brokaw, CNN, and many more.

From Library Journal

The author, a psychotherapist specializing in stress management programs for corporate women, identifies the Everything to Everybody syndrome, a syndrome experienced by today's high-achieving woman who suffers stress while trying to excel in both personal life and career. Braiker compares this syndrome to Type A behavior in men. After presenting a self-test that helps readers determine whether they suffer from this syndrome, she goes on to describe some of the false premises that contribute to its development, e.g., denying dependency needs in personal relationships because of the need for self-reliance on the job. Coping tactics and a 21-day program to build stress resistance are also given. Detailing a newly recognized state, the book deserves wide readership. Florence Scarinci, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
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About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0595222730
• ISBN 13: 9780595222735
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304