18 Sep 2024

Ladies! Don't be 'nice'!

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 18 September 2024

Underneath the niceness society expects of women is a fiery independent nature that's buried deep says Lisa Marchiano.  She's a licensed social worker, podcaster and author. She says traits like ruthlessness, shrewdness and even rage are banished by expectations for women and emerge as bitterness, resentment, anxiety and depression. She offers encouragement and insights from her clinical practice and her own life help women rediscover parts of themselves that may have been lost. Her new book is called The Vital Spark Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire.

The Vital Spark cover by Lisa Marchiano

Photo: Lisa Marchiano

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