"I can't win with my mom," laments a young client as she sits on my couch for a first therapy session. "What do you mean, win?" I ask. "If I tell my mom anything about my life, she seems disinterested ...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. How many times have you heard this? More importantly, how many times have you said it about a situation you were in? This is called a double bind: the feeling ...
For too long, women in leadership have been told to walk a tightrope between being too strong and too soft, too assertive and too accommodating. This is the Double Bind—the paradox that says if you ...