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Mike and Joyce speak with Dr. Patricia O’Gorman about her 7 Steps to becoming a Resilient Woman.
Too many times, women sabotage themselves with girly thoughts, convincing themselves that their life’s disappointments are a result of being too tall, too pretty, too fat, too skinny, too smart, not smart enough or not sexy enough. Simply put, our girly thoughts can be our greatest hurdle to making positive progress in our lives, both personally and professionally.
Girly thoughts not only stifle women from achieving their full potential, but they slash a women’s sense of value or self-worth because they remind us that we don’t fall in line with the latest version of what is culturally desirable and acceptable. Dr. O’Gorman shows us that a resilient life is achieved by how we react to situations in our lives, not by the things that happen to us.
Dr. Patricia O’Gorman, Ph.D is an internationally-recognized public speaker known for her warm, funny, and inspiring presentations, coach, psychologist, and a consultant to Lifescape Solutions in Delray Beach, Florida. She is noted for her work on women, children of alcoholics, and trauma, in the child welfare, mental health, and substance abuse systems. She has private practice offices in: Saranac Lake, NY 12983 at 118 Main St., and Albany, New York 12208 at 233 New Scotland Ave.
She was one of the first researchers in children of alcoholics in the early 1970’s, documenting the impact of alcoholism and sobriety on adolescent development, and went on in 1974 to create the Department of Prevention and Education for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD). She has served as an international consultant to organizations in preventative and clinical strategic planning.
Dr. O’Gorman is a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, where she serves on the Advisory Board, and has held positions ranging from Clinical Director of a child welfare agency, Executive Director of an agency serving mostly female survivors of crime and abuse, to Director of the Division of Prevention for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). She is currently Chairperson of the Advisory Board of Horses Healing Hearts (HHH), Inc. a nationally recognized equine therapy program for children of alcoholics located in Delray Beach, Florida.
She is a veteran of numerous television appearances, including Good Morning America, Today, and AM Sunday and the author of numerous articles in magazines including Addiction Today, Counselor, and Recovery.
Her newest book, her second on women and resilience, is The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power. Through the development of the concept of girly thoughts, Dr. O’Gorman brings to the topic of women and how they build resilience in the face of hardship, the same type of seminal thinking that she used to help create the Children of Alcoholics Movement. Her first book on women and resilience is Dancing Backwards in High Heels: How Women Master the Art of Resilience.
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