Goals - "Meditations For Women Who Do Too Much"

Attaining our goals can be a dream come true but the stressors that arise when those large dreams are realized can be the stuff of nightmares. In this reading from, "Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much" (Aug. 10th) we learn that the escapism that comes with many addictions and addictive behavior (alcoholism, fervent shopping, workaholism, denial of sleep, etc.) can consume any one of us, regardless of our social status or the size of our personal goals.

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Meditations for women who do too much.

Goals.

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

From Oriana Falichy.

Several years ago,

One of my friends called me in a panic.

Stacey,

She said,

You have to do something immediately.

There are some women really hurting out there and nobody knows.

She had been interviewing women who had been in top executive positions for 7 to 10 years.

She said it was as if they had made the team and every day they got suited up,

Got on the bus and went to the game,

But they never got off the bench.

At first they were hopeful,

But after a few years they had become resigned to the reality that they would never quite belong.

She said that she found more alcoholism,

Clinical depression,

And anorexia bulimia in this group of women than she had ever seen.

It is not the realization of our dreams that makes us feel lost.

It is what happens to us when our dreams become nightmares.