Breakdown Breakthrough

Helps professional women experiencing feelings of disempowerment and dissatisfaction regain the confidence courage and energy to take control of their lives. Identifies 12 crises professional women face today and offers specific advice and tools for overcoming them. Draws on interviews with over one hundred women offering inspiring stories and practical advice for addressing and resolving disempowerment. Thousands of professional women though outwardly successful find themselves in the midst of a crisis believing that they've sacrificed meaning fulfillment and balance in their lives to achieve work - related success. Their lives feel unmanageable - and they are confused blocked overwhelmed and unable to move forward effectively. Kathy Caprino sheds light on this growing epidemic of disempowerment and shows women how to reinvigorate and reclaim their lives. Breakdown Breakthrough uses a comprehensive coaching behavioral and spiritual framework to explore how women can restore their power and reconnect with their life visions as they awake from the paralysis of professional dissatisfaction and personal diminishment. Caprino outlines a new model for understanding disempowerment one that focuses on women's relationships with themselves with others with the world and with what she calls their higher selves. She identifies twelve specific challenges professional women face and offers concrete practical advice for overcoming each one - helping readers ''step back let go of what is holding them back and say yes'' to creating a compelling and rewarding next chapter of life and work. This is also a deeply personal book. Caprino candidly discusses her own struggles with crippling feelings of disempowerment and shares moving stories and heartfelt advice gleaned from her interviews with over one hundred women who experienced and overcame the crises she describes. Breakdown Breakthrough offers working women who are stressed stuck and dissatisfied access to new inspiration hope and a definite plan of action.