How to Get Unstuck from the Wrong Job

Every day I have the opportunity to meet smart, creative, curious women who are stuck. 

Women who know that something isn’t aligned in their job or career, and who intellectually know they need and want help.

And yet – when it comes to actually saying yes to support? Crossing that threshold can feel really, really hard.

I know it because I’ve been there myself. 

For the first 15 years of my career, I felt like a round peg in a square hole. 

No matter how much striving I did…

No matter how savvy I thought I was being about ‘making the right choice…’ 

No matter what my job title was or how fancy the company name…

I could sense the knot in my stomach every time I walked into the office, worrying about what chaos was waiting for me.

I could feel the misalignment every time I had to fake excitement about a new project that had been assigned to me.

I could recognize the inner turmoil I felt every time I had to suppress my inner knowing in favor of what I thought was the right thing to say or do.

I knew I was stuck.

And as much as I knew I needed help, I resisted support for so, so long.

It wasn’t because I didn’t see the value in getting help.

It was because I worried about what it would say about me.

• About how incapable I was (because I was asking for help).

• About how selfish I was (because I couldn’t just be happy at work like everyone else). 

• About how broken I was (because what if this didn’t even end up working?).

Sound familiar?

If you’ve checked all the boxes and done all the “right” things – and you still feel stuck or unhappy, I want to offer you a new perspective:

The women out there who are living their most authentic lives? Who are making meaningful contributions at work while also building a life they love? Who are taking care of themselves while being of service to their communities?

They don’t do it all alone. They have support.

Somehow (ahem, Capitalism) we’ve internalized that we have to be the sole provider of our own solutions.

Somehow we’ve come to believe that asking for help, getting support, even outsourcing the things we’re not great at – is a sign of how deficient we are.

You can’t continue like this.

The pressure you put on yourself. 

The anxiety and burnout you’re feeling. 

The extreme urge to ‘give, give, give’ to others without giving permission to yourself.

It has to stop.

When you commit to getting support, you stop putting pressure on yourself to fix everything on your own, and instead start seeing opportunities to enrich your plan and effort through the wisdom and guidance of experts.

When you commit to getting support, you begin to see and accept yourself for who you are: a deeply authentic, deeply human being who can’t do it all – but who can do the things that matter.

It sounds pretty dreamy to me. To you, too?

If you’re ready to make this shift, I want to help you.

Learn more about my 1:1 coaching practice and fill out an interest form to get started. I have limited spots for new clients available now, but only until May 19th, at which point I’ll be moving to a waitlist for later in the summer.. 

So if now’s the right time for you, let’s talk!

Onward,