The Field Guide to Leading
Name what you're seeing. Then do something about it.
A field guide is the book you carry into the wild so you can recognize what's in front of you. This one is for the terrain of leadership, the meetings and hallways and kitchen tables where so many capable women hold everything and run out of room to be held.
Every page here answers one real question in plain language. Some name a pattern you may have been living inside for years. Some explain what this body-based work actually is, without the jargon. Some give you a practice you can use before your next hard conversation. All of them grow from the same root: communication is a nervous system event before it's a language event.
Read in any order.
Start wherever something in you says,
oh... that's me.
START HERE
If you're new to this work, begin with What Is Overfunctioning? It's the pattern most women leaders recognize first, and it opens the door to everything else.
Patterns You Carry
Why do I keep doing this? These pages name survival strategies that pass for personality, so you can see them clearly and choose differently.
What Is Overfunctioning? Signs, Costs, and How Women Leaders Stop
The Fawn Response at Work
Over-Apologizing at Work
"I Don't Know" vs. "I Don't Know How"
Understand the Work
What is this, and is it for me? Straight answers about somatic and embodied leadership.
Somatic Leadership Coaching, Explained Without the Jargon
Embodied Leadership: A Practical Definition
Practices for
Pressure
What do I do in the moment? Tools you can feel working.
Locate, Root, Lead: A 3-Step Practice for Pressure
How to Prepare for a Hard Conversation: The Conversation Map
The Wider System
Is it me, or is it the system? What the research says, and what culture has to do with it.
Burnout in Women Leaders: What the Research Says
Internal Communication Audit: 10 Signs Your Brand and Culture Don't Match
Choosing Support
Who should I work with, and what will it cost?
Honest guides to finding the right kind of help.
Executive Coach vs. Therapist vs. Somatic Practitioner
Leadership Coaching for Women: What It Is, What It Costs, How to Choose
When you're ready for more than reading
No pitch. Just clarity.
If there's one conversation you've been dreading, the Hard Conversation Intensive is a single 90-minute session to prepare for it. If you'd like to look at the whole picture together, book a discovery call.
