In The Good Girl Double Bind, a woman can be neither too bossy nor too weak, too sexy nor too prudish – impossible compressions and contortions ensue.

For both men and women, unlearning socialized patterns of dominance and submission is the gateway to more fulfilling relationships, businesses and conversations. Here’s how to understand and navigate the power dynamics of your everyday interactions so you can lead effectively.

The Independent Woman archetype has beautiful origins. But the focus on self-sufficiency can also pressure women to hold themselves to an impossible standard of “doing it all” without any support.

Name one Good Girl who has changed the world. You can’t. Because she can’t. It is the Good Girl’s job to maintain the status quo. But when we're living in a time when so much of the status quo no longer works for us as individuals or as communities, creating change means breaking free of the Good Girl Conditioning that keeps women trapped and unable to access their power and agency.

The natural cycles of expansion and contraction are going on around us all the time. Take breathing: as we inhale, we expand; as we exhale, we contract. Our own cycles of growth and renewal follow the same rhythms, but we often try to fight periods of contraction. Through learning to work with and honor the emotions of both states, we can live in full alignment with ourselves and others.