Healing the Success Wound
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Healing the Success Wound
A transformative guide to overcoming the pain of mistaking your success for self-worth, from top career coach Brooke Taylor.
A revelatory five-step process to help women heal 'the success wound', the pain that comes from mistaking success for self-worth, to achieve both personal and professional health and success.
Are you a Grinder, believing that the more you work, the more successful you will be? Or are you a Hider, afraid to leave your comfort zone and wishing you had the courage to pursue your dreams? Maybe you're a Work Hard Play Hard, afraid to slow down and stop the busy-ness that secretly shields you from looking at the real problem underneath. You could be a Pleaser, seeking approval from others often at the expense of your own needs, or a Seeker, hopping from job to job, city to city, with shiny object syndrome, thinking the next thing will fill the void inside or give your life direction.
If you are a successful woman, chances are you've been some or all of these archetypes. Because while women are still supposed to 'have it all,' being a successful woman still means sacrifice, and for many of us, a heaping scoop of self-doubt as we find ourselves equating our self-worth with our professional success - our success wound.
Brooke Taylor knows this all too well: her success wound nearly ruined her promising career at Google and devastated her sense of self. After taking a step back and honestly assessing her own beliefs, she developed a 5-step programme to help other women (1) diagnose their success wound (2) discern their toxic success wound strategies (3) heal their success wound (4) create a new, internally-guided definition of success and (5) take aligned action towards this vision.
Through utilising Brooke's proven practical advice, you'll be ready to adopt a new paradigm of success that she calls 'aligned ambition' and transform your work, relationships, and personal life for the better.
Healing the Success Wound offers a pathway to a more fulfilling and balanced life, free from the confines of traditional success measurements.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780349442754
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Piatkus Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Brooke Taylor is a Career Coach, speaker, workshop facilitator, and former Marketing Lead at Google. She has earned titles like "The Career Coach to the Elite" and "a Top Career Coach to Follow" across global media like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Women's Health, and Marie Claire, where her work on the success wound has been featured as a solution to the burnt-out-overachiever's modern career concerns. As an in-house executive coach at Google and McKinsey, she has helped diverse and emerging talent to forward their leadership, with an increased retention rate of diverse talent by greater than 15%, at a time when female and diverse talent typically would leave the workforce altogether.
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