Flourishing
"You should write a book about Flourishing as a woman!"
So said my friend at The Growth Lab.
"Simply share your heart and beliefs about women's wellbeing in particular.
It will be a gift from you to your readers."
And so, with much encouragement from friends and family, I have compiled timeless truths shared with women over several decades of professional and spiritual conversations.
In recent years, many of us have had to navigate an unfamiliar world of hybrid working, parenting, and caring for our elders. This book offers reflections and lists that address an essential issue affecting many women - the struggle to balance their personal lives, work, and the needs of others while still taking care of their own well-being.
Creating a platform for conversation and encouraging women to share their ideas, this book will empower and support you in fulfilling your potential and achieving your goals. It emphasises the importance of self-care in helping women thrive in all aspects of their lives.
I encourage you to read this book with your journal open next to you, dipping in and out as you choose.
Yours in wellbeing,
Adrienne
PS. What a generous review below, and I don't even know this reader :-)
Did you know?
The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies burnout as “an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress”.
The term was first introduced in 1974 by Herbert Freudenberg, an American psychologist. Freudenberger observed that burnout was particularly prevalent in people in high-stress jobs that required emotional engagement.
But burnout is not always simply work-related. It is the physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that we experience resulting from chronic stress in our work or personal life (usually a combination of both). Women are particularly at risk when holding full-time jobs, raising children, fulfilling other caring responsibilities, and dealing with their own physical and mental health problems.
The stages leading to burnout can be insidious, with a gradual deterioration of our physical and mental health. Symptoms like feeling emotionally drained, overwhelmed, irritable, anxious, pessimistic, hopeless or unmotivated can be hard to notice. This is because we are wired to ‘just keep going’. Physical symptoms like headaches, digestive problems, poor sleep and continued exhaustion can be masked with medication, overuse of stimulants like caffeine or a gradual increase in the number of glasses of wine we drink each night to ‘wind down”.
Due to the nature of burnout, we need to consciously do all we can to prevent it.
Did you also know?
Those same wonderful friends who encouraged me to write Flourishing have laid down the challenge to take some of the topics and themes and offer to speak at women's events!
So, here I am - feel free to contact me about your event and how I can help spread the word about women's wellbeing.
Yours truly
Adrienne