Grounded Wildness: Break Free from Performing Your Life and Start Living It

Go beyond basic self-help for women and stop proving your worth through achievement, likability, and million other forms of being "good." It's time to reclaim your wildness. "A must-read for every woman swimming in perfectionism, pleasing, and performing, and who is looking for the permission to be her wildest, most beautiful self." —Sharon Podobnik, founder of The Center for Conscious Leadership and author of It's Not (All) Your Fault As a child, Heather Whelpley was confident, bold, and relaxed in who she was. She belted out Barbra Streisand tunes, dared to hold live snakes with no fear, and marched to the beat of a drummer all her own. Until an all-too-common avalanche of rules told her to hold her breath and tuck herself in. Rules that said there was a "right" kind of body. That worth is tied to achievements. That we should prove, please, and perfect our way through life. One day, deep realizations finally pushed her to break the rules she'd been handed to rediscover her beautiful