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I’m Back: Coaching for the Season You’re In, Not the One You’re Waiting For
I became a life coach because if there was something I could spend a lifetime learning about, it would be the stories of people’s lives—the strength of their spirit, and the fascination with the variety of choices and ways life can be lived. I was grateful for what I had and wanted to use my…
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Befriending the Impostor Syndrome
There I was, finishing the third year of a very competitive postdoctoral scholarship from NASA, getting ready to present an invited talk at a giant international annual geoscience conference about the international project of which I was one of the leaders… and in all this, regularly crying in my office because my work was going…
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Do your thing. Your way is the best way!
Days… No, like this: DAYS!!! I have spent trying to figure out why the IDL procedure is not producing the numbers and the pictures it should be producing. Bugging others about how they did it, checking what I thought I had to be checking. blah-blah-blah… Until I remembered something. First, a second of bragging (pure…
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How poorly defined personal boundaries affect professional communication
Remember that time when someone asked you for a favor, and you agreed despite that heavy feeling, which hinted that it’s too much for you right now? Or another time, when you did your part of the group project, and then his part, and most of her part, because something else came up for them?…
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“The Curse of the Good Girl”
“* The Curse of the Good Girl erects a psychological glass ceiling that begins its destructive sprawl in childhood and extends across the female life span, stunting the growth of skills and habits essential to becoming a strong woman. * The Good Girl was academically successful. smart and driven, pretty and kind. But she was…
Mariya Petrenko 