The Strong Woman Trap A Feminist Guide for Getting Your Life Back [Paperback]

Are you the one who saves the day at work? Does your family expect you to do it all when you get home? Perhaps you used to like being thought of as reliable, but you long for a life of your own againone with fewer emergency circumstances and people who need lots of help.

It isn't just you. Many women have been socialized to quietly pick up the slack and not complainthis is a setup for isolation, second guessing, and waiting for rewards that never come. This is what Sasha Mobley callsThe Strong Woman Trap. We are playing too hard at a rigged game that we didn't create. We spend our energies managing demands and treat our own emotions and needs as irrelevant.

Sasha provides a hard look at the cultural beliefs that set strong, driven, ambitious women up for a life spent constantly saving others from themselves, filling in gaps, and going it alone like a hybrid of Wonder Woman and Working Girl.

The Strong Woman Trapis the book is for women who spend their spare moments looking wistfully through magazines telling themselves their dreams are just one more personal sacrifice away. Wishes wont get you there. Neither will doubling down on old strategies. What will get you there is learning the secrets to escapingThe Strong Woman Trap.Helps women understand they can get what they want professionally and personally, without having to do it all alone.Sasha Mobley is a certified life coach and author ofAgile! The Half-Assed Guide to Creating Anything You Want from ScratchNo Experts Required!as well asSylvia, Sylvia, So Fast Sylvia, andSylvia, Smarter than the Teacher. When she isnt writing or working with clients, Sasha can be found enjoying the charms of the California coastline, experimenting in her kitchen, paddle boarding, studying Japanese, or watching anime. If shes not doing those things, shes probably rollerskating with scissors or encouraging other disobedient behavior. Sasha lives in Silicon Valley with her lolcÀ