A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space

For too long women have been told to confine themselves-physically socially and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall raise their voices and claim their space. Women fight the pressure to make themselves small in private professional and public spaces. Eliza VanCort a teacher consultant and speaker provides the necessary tools for women to rewrite the rules and create the stories of their choosing safely and without apology. VanCort identifies the five key behaviors of all ''Space Claiming Queens'': use your voice and posture to project confidence and power end self-sabotage forge connections neutralize unsafe spaces and unite across differences. Through personal narrative research and actionable strategies VanCort provides how-tos on combatting challenges like antimentors and microaggressions and gives advice for building up your ''old girls'' club asking for what you're worth and owning your space without apology. Bold fun and enlightening this book is birthed from VanCort's incredible story. Having a mother with schizophrenia forced VanCort to learn to be small and invisible at an early age and suffering a traumatic brain injury as an adult required her to rethink communication from the ground up. Drawing on these experiences and those of real women everywhere VanCort empowers women to claim space for themselves and for their sisters with courage empathy and conviction because ''when we rise together we rise so much higher.''