Family & boundaries
The family request you can’t seem to refuse.
What happened in a family can still shape what feels possible now.
Daughters of Emotionally Immature MothersThe library · Annie Wright, LMFT
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Childhood Emotional Neglect: A Therapist’s Complete Guide for Driven Women
Parenting After Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide
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Mary Ainsworth and Attachment Styles: What the Strange Situation Research Reveals About Your Adult Relationships
Sue Johnson and Emotionally Focused Therapy: An LMFT’s Guide to Attachment Science in Couples Work
Edward Tronick and the Still Face Experiment: What It Reveals About Emotional Neglect, Adult Relationships, and Healing
Allan Schore and Right-Brain Attachment: What Early Relational Neuroscience Means for Driven Women in Therapy
Pete Walker, Complex PTSD, and the Fawn Response: A Clinical Guide for Driven Women Who’ve Been Saying Yes Their Whole Lives
Gabor Maté: When the Body Says No, Childhood Trauma, and the Driven Woman Who Never Learned to Refuse
Richard Schwartz and Internal Family Systems: A Clinical Guide to IFS Parts Work for Driven Women
Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing: What Body-Based Trauma Healing Actually Looks Like for Driven Women
Bessel van der Kolk: What His Trauma Research Means for Driven Women and the LMFT Work of Healing
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Work & ambition
You love the work. You can’t switch it off.
Start with the distinction between ambition you choose and achievement you feel compelled to pursue.
Am I Addicted to Achievement or Just Driven?A different adulthood
Your childhood isn’t the life you want next.
A starting question about the adulthood you want to build, rather than a label you have to accept.
I had a lousy childhood. I want a good adulthood.Readers & colleagues
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