What is your glass ceiling?

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What is your glass ceiling?

 

I’m going to start with a few questions first so you might need a pen and paper –

 

What is the glass ceiling that you’ve put on yourself?

Or the limits you’ve put on yourself?

Has it come from you?

Or been imposed from the outside?

Who gave or taught you that there are limits?

 

Yes, of course,  I know there has always been a case of ‘this far and no more’ for women in business of any sort (other than those very few amazing women who break through it).

 

Yes, of course, again I know that things are changing these days, albeit slowly, and yet, still – what are the restrictions you’re putting on yourself?

 

Yes (that word again!), it is You putting it on you.   Do you still want to hang on to the glass ceiling or the restrictions?

 

Trapped Wasted Energy

 

I want to remind you that there is loads of wasted energy trapped inside you (I call it ‘my Caged Tiger’) as you come up against that glass ceiling.

 

What are you doing with it?

How are you hurting yourself?

How is it being enacted out in your personal and professional life?

 

Don’t think you have handled it, as I can assure you in my work with women, for many, it is still there expressing itself in many different ways (including anger, compliance, frustration or depression).   And I can safely say that it is slowly choking your spirit – your ‘joie de vivre’.

 

Another Question

 

I know I am asking lots of questions and here is a really important one for you to ask yourself.

 

I wonder what it is that is blocking you from going further?

 

Again, it will really serve you to ask yourself this question.   And I’ll tell you the why that I found out from my story.

 

My Why?

 

When I grew up in Glasgow, I was told subtly and not so subtly that I could only go so far and no further.   I decided to leave Grammar School at 16 (much to the school’s dismay) and applied to a Commercial College (topped the league there!) as that was the extent of how far I could go within my family circumstances.   My glass ceiling had been reached!!

 

When I moved to Essex, I decided that it was my time to release my ‘Caged Tiger’ energy and not allow that voice from the past to trap me any more.    I then achieved 2 Degrees, Diplomas in psychotherapy and supervision, did 1-1 work and ran groups in self-development and supervision.   Somehow I just kept going until I became a part-time Director of a Training Organisation.   I then resigned, became seriously ill with cancer (two weeks in intensive care) and had loads of time out to recover.

 

Guess what, it happened again!    Yes, I reached the old glass ceiling.   This time it is called  Age!!!  Am I listening to this – No!! 

 

So I want to tell you that there is no glass ceiling nowadays – only one that you put on yourself and this usually comes from our past.  Or simply said – it is your belief system that tells you!

 

Now I see it that my years of professional and personal experience are my forte in whatever field I am in whether on a 1-1 basis (supervision or coaching) or running Retreats or Groups.

 

Wise old Crone

 

Nowadays, I see myself to be a Wise Old Crone with much to offer as I come from a place of maturity, warmth, experience and wisdom.

 

I’d love to be alongside you as you step into your own shoes and break through your glass ceiling to take action to live out your yearning.   Please don’t reject yourself – you deserve better.

 

Get in touch by e-mail, leave your telephone number and I’ll give you a call to see how I can serve you.

 

Other than that, you might like to come along to my January, 2017, Workshop in Essex so you can feel more connected with yourself and what your next steps could be.

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