Sublime

To support other women in their growth through nurturing and enlightening workshops.

Emotionally, anxiety is experienced as dread, worry, and, after a while, exhaustion. Cognitively, it often becomes difficult to think clearly, pulling people into states of unproductive rumination and provoking cognitive distortions that are the focus of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), such as catastrophizing, overgeneralizing, and

But they had a strange and disturbing effect on me, and I had a hard time shaking off their verdict. This vulnerability afflicts many of the most able, high-achieving females.

The voices they hear from us—especially in their most fearful and vulnerable moments—will become the voices in their heads someday.

Sherry Turkle, a research psychologist at MIT and the author of Alone Together and Reclaiming Conversation, calls

This strategy was hardy unique. Whole bodies of work on teenage girls (most notably Carol Gilligan’s) have suggested that girls lose themselves in adolescence, that confidence and spirit and voice begin to go up in smoke, and that this is essentially a culturally supported phenomenon, the result of a girl’s growing awareness that the things she

restore spiritual and psychological balance to the way women think.

Gradually, she realizes how she is forced to look for distraction when she is moved, upset, or sad. (When a six-year-old’s mother died, his aunt told him: “You must be brave; don’t cry; now go to your room and play nicely”)