The Overfunctioning Woman's Handbook--Uncommon Sense to Deal With Impossible Jobs and Impossible People - Softcover
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A practical guide addressing such issues such as anxiety, saying NO, choosing not to do things, how to make anger a tool for constructive change, and how to best define success on one s own terms. The book is about how women can learn to not do an end-run around their emotions (to get the jobs done), only to have unexpressed emotions triggered at the wrong times by the wrong incidents. Instead, emotions are viewed and examined as a necessary signal from the body that something needs to be communicated and how to exercise that communication. The Handbook is NOT a book about how to do more more efficiently. Through the experience of stories of other women, with a clear explication of the key psychological principles behind why we do what we do demystified, and with personalized exercises contained in the book, compelling solutions emerge for building internal resilience against the drive towards perfectionism, speed, and superficiality which are so harmful to health and peace of mind. Special notes on parenting children and adolescents are highlighted throughout the text. Includes a section on dealing with workplace communication.
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This dense guide to "breaking away from impossible expectations, impossible jobs and impossible people" claims, on the back cover, that "If you don't have time to read this book, you need this book." Unfortunately, that's the tome's central problem: the depth of the text is undercut by an unwieldy design; if there was ever a book that needed more bullet points and fewer chapters, this is it. It's too bad, as there is meaty writing here for those with the patience to find it; in particular, authors Rivkin and Park (the former a psychotherapist, the latter an overfunctioning writer-artist-advocate-farmer-mom-etc.) shine in their chapters on identifying and dealing with difficult people, who are broken down succinctly and effectively into "red flags" (demanding, self-serving, reality-denying) and "yellow flags" (blame others, avoid conflict and self-reflection). The authors are also remarkably realistic when compared to other self-helps, acknowledging that many people won't or can't be changed, and that life must go on among them. Rivkin and Rubin's primer for the overly committed is worthwhile reading-assuming one has time to commit to it.
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