After posting my first blog on limiting beliefs, I experienced a number of serendipities causing me to re-evaluate the focus of the blog. I realised that over the years I have been coaching individuals, there seemed amongst my female clients to be a recurring theme relating to belief and/or self belief.
Many of these women were already confident, self-assured and successful, and yet there seemed to be an invisible something holding them back.
I have never considered myself a rampant feminist, and escaped reading "The Female Eunuch" in my formative (and subsequent) years, but there is no doubt that many women struggle with beliefs we have inherited not only from our parents and families, but that our culture and social structure impose on us (we think!).
So this blog is now dedicated to working women **, who fulfil many different, and often conflicting, roles, and would like a place to visit and feel that it's OK to be a woman and express the range of ideas and emotions of which we are capable.
It is of course open to any men who wish to join the party, as I recognise that women are one part of the whole in which we operate, and neither functions effectively in isolation from the other. I greatly value my male family members, friends, colleagues, associates and clients, and the different perspectives they bring to my life and work, and encourage any men who wish to contribute to join in the discussions.
Looking forward to sharing with you in the weeks and months to come.
** This includes women who may not be paid for the work they do, such as raising children, caring for others, voluntary employment.
For more information on this and related subjects contact sue@resolutions-for-change.co.uk
Friday, 18 July 2008
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