"I can't win with my mom," laments a young client as she sits on my couch for a first therapy session. "What do you mean, win?" I ask. "If I tell my mom anything about my life, she seems disinterested ...

For too long, women in leadership have been told to walk a tightrope between being too strong and too soft, too assertive and too accommodating. This is the Double Bind—the paradox that says if you ...