Why high achieving women are feeling lonelier than ever and how can we move from this loneliness?

As I work with women who are high achievers, there is a pattern which comes to the surface. Yes, there is nothing beautiful than someone who is ignited with real passion for their work. But most of these women have work as a coping mechanism to feel seen, heard or moving away from the loneliness at home.

Let’s look at the vicious cycle that these women are into. When a woman loves her work, more than ever it is evident that home and home chores bore here. Taking care of kids seems mechanical with no tangible milestones or achievements for her. This was me too. The first year after having my son, I was drowning into this struggle of do I love work more than my baby. Clearly I loved my 2-3 hours of work which I managed then than spending time with my baby. I was fortunate enough to work through this with my mentor where now I am ignited at work and loveable at home.

For most women, they move into guilt trips where they start distancing themselves from their home and focus completely on their work. And if you are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, burnt out……..STOP, PAUSE and listen to me.

• You are never happy at the destination. You set goals for yourselves and when you achieve these, your mind moves on to the next goal you want to achieve. There is no breathing space, time to celebrate or a reflection moment where you sit with what it is that you have achieved. The burn out starts here.

• You rather swamp yourself with work than go home and face the reality of your relationships. You drown in work thinking this is a better bet.

• The adrenaline rush with work accolades starts becoming addictive. Never satisfying though.

And then there comes a time when all of it falls down. You sit and realise where are you headed, what are you exactly doing and have you really wondered what you want to do with your life?

I have 6 men and women in my various programs, who do not know who they are if their work is stripped off their identity. Men and women who do not recognise who they really are and what does their soul really yearn for. I was one of them too. If you identify with this, I want you to know you are not alone.

Can we peel off our layers today and address the real root cause here? Can I hold this safe space for you today? Can I show you a way, a window, a door of other opportunities to know yourself today?

Let this be a start of your journey. A journey which you did not know existed. A journey which is safe for you take on.

Hit reply and share your insights with me. Let me hold that space for you. Cry. Shout. Release. Let go. I am here holding you. I am here saying, “All of it is fine and we can make this fine together”.

And as my mentor Megs says, I invite you to read and take on this email and see what resonates for you. Even read it a few times this week, and you will catch something new each time.

Hit reply,

Vent.

Speak out.

Share it out.

Speak out what is your truth behind closed doors, and you wish to untangle.

​All women are so fucking courageous in their soul that they are made to navigate this. I have never met one that is not.

All women are so fucking unique, yet we can seem to unknowingly block how we feel and experience ourselves- when such depths of how we see, taste and be who we are genuinely is SUBLIME.

Your reply could be your micro step to admitting to yourself that you are ready to change the way you approach these times, your existence because you MATTER. It could acknowledge how your self-development journey is so committed, yet you have never celebrated it.

Enjoy......

I love you all.

Xx Pradnya xX

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