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Whether we are survivors of a difficult childhood, career women trying to do it all, or women simply caught in a web of vague expectations, Dancing Backwards in High Heels helps us achieve our potential and live with confidence. Author Patricia OGorman shows us how to work with our own style of resilience by identifying what has helped us survive in the past and explains how to draw upon these experiences to manage the changes that life brings.

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Though Fred Astaire got top billing, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. Texas Governor Ann Richardss ironic barb reminds women that they accomplish far more in their daily lives than they give themselves credit for. Psychologist OGorman (Breaking the Cycle of Addiction) shows readers how to focus on personal assets rather than on unfinished tasks and unfulfilled goals. In so doing, she expands the meaning of resilience to encompass the ability to recover from adversity and achieve a positive self-image and world view. Drawing on her professional cases, she relates the story of Rachel, who pinch-hitted for her alcoholic mother by preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for relatives at the age of 11. By seeing the resourcefulness and courage of her feat, Rachel is able to recast a negative experience as a victory. OGorman is never preachy and her practical prose is replete with such anecdotes and with suggestions designed to help readers develop a personal ally-Your resilient voice. Exercises expand each chapters theme while they promote self-awareness, and questions help readers find their own strengths and weaknesses, thereby creating their own resilience profiles from the six OGorman identifies.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Patricia OGorman, Ph.D., a psychologist in private practice in East Chatham, NY, is noted for her work in child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and substance abuse where she has serves as a consultant to organizations in preventative and clinical strategic planning. She has held positions ranging from Clinical Director of a child welfare agency to Director of Prevention for NIAAA, and is a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.

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title:Dancing Backwards in High Heels : How Women Master the Art of Resilience
author:O'Gorman, Patricia A.
publisher:Hazelden Publishing
isbn10 | asin:0894869981
print isbn13:9780894869983
ebook isbn13:9780585300184
language:English
subjectWomen--Psychology, Resilience (Personality trait) , Self-esteem in women.
publication date:1994
lcc:HQ1206.O35 1994eb
ddc:155.6/33
subject:Women--Psychology, Resilience (Personality trait) , Self-esteem in women.
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What people are saying about Dancing Backwards in High Heels....
"Patricia O'Gorman teaches us how to rely on our resilience so we can gain access to our considerable personal power. This book is a valuable compass to use in navigating through our challenging lives. Every woman needs to read this book."
DONNA BOUNDY, MSW
Author of When Money Is a Drug
"Patricia O'Gorman has been a leading light in the self-help field for years. She has helped pry open many a caged heart in the past; this book will help many more."
EARNIE LARSEN
Author of Days of Healing, Days of Joy and Stage II Recovery
"Patricia O'Gorman offers something to every woman who has ever struggled to move forward in her life, her career, and her relationships."
KAREN CASEY
Author of Each Day a New Beginning and A Woman's Spirit
"Patricia O'Gorman shows us what we are made offar more than we think!"
JANE MARKS
Author of We Have a Problem and The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust
"This remarkable book focuses on revealing the natural resilience and inner strength that women possess as their birthright."
WAYNE KRITSBERG
Author of The Invisible Wound: A New Approach to Healing Childhood Sexual Trauma
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Dancing Backwards in High Heels
How Women Master the Art of Resilience
Patricia O'Gorman, Ph.D.
Page iv Hazelden Center City Minnesota 55012-0176 1994 by Patricia - photo 2
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Hazelden
Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176
1994 by Patricia O'Gorman
All rights reserved. Published 1994
Printed in the United States of America
No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O'Gorman, Patricia A.
Dancing backwards in high heels: how women master the art of
resilience/Patricia O'Gorman
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-89486-998-1
1. WomenPsychology. 2. Resilience (Personality trait)
3. Self-esteem in women. I. Title.
HQ1206.035 1994 94-18598
155.6'33dc20 CIP
The names of the people in this book who have shared their experiences have been changed. This book also includes some stories that are composites taken from a group of people who have had similar experiences. In the latter case, any resemblance to specific people or specific situations is accidental.
Page vii
To the women in my familymy mother, sister, grandmothers, and
auntswho taught me about resilience, and to Sophie Elam, Ruth
Sondheimer, Cynthia Levy, and Joanne Dobson, who helped me see
this in myself.
Page ix
Contents
Dedication
vii
Acknowledgements
xi
Chapter 1
Women and Resilience: Dancing Backwards in High Heels
1
Chapter 2
Our Resilient Voice
15
Chapter 3
Patterns of Resilience
33
Chapter 4
Growing Up: The Lessons of Childhood
61
Chapter 5
Family Legacies
83
Chapter 6
Adolescence, Women, and Society
101
Chapter 7
Issues in Adulthood
115
Chapter 8
A Woman's Love
137
Chapter 9
Parenting and Resilience
157
Epilogue
175
Bibliography
183
Index
187

Page xi
Acknowledgments
Heartfelt appreciation to Barbara S. Brauer, whose skills, vision, humor, and friendship made the writing of this book not only possible but also pleasurable.
Loving gratitude to Robert Ross for his unceasing support and devotion, and to Michael and Jeremy for their sustaining love, pride, and willingness to comprehend, as only the very young can do, their mother's need to write, even when this meant I could not be with them.
Special thanks to Candice Fuhrman, my agent, who believed in this project from the beginning, and whose guidance and tenacity helped make it happen, and to my editor, Rebecca Post, for her enthusiasm and her insistence that this book be as clear as possible.
And I would like to recognize Dr. Steven Wolin, whose pioneering work in resilience helped stimulate me in the formation of these concepts.
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