Women & Risk
How to Master Your Fears and Do What
You Never Thought You Could Do
Nicky Marone
‘Women & Risk’ is not available new, but is a very beneficial book for women (or anyone) that wants to confront their fears and take risks to achieve their goals. This book explains how women can be highly skilled and successful in one realm of their life, yet are immobilized by fear in other areas.
The Author explains how she had access to magnificent ski slopes, yet was terrified to go skiing until she was challenged by a friend. “Being scared is not a justification for not doing it, everyone is scared the first time.” the friend said. These words changed her life. After taking the challenge and finally going skiing, she adored it and lean’t the hidden lesson that fear tries to teach us: that is, when we refuse to be helpless in the face of it, we learn to love ourselves with a newly acquired definition of who we are and what we can do.
Avoiding risk and therefore fearing and avoiding life is self-defeating, where as mastery behavior is life-giving and self-affirming. By resisting situations that are risky and unpredictable, we miss the opportunity for growth, change and transformation.
This is not just a book about risk taking, it has heartwarming stories like the woman who was too afraid to leave an abusive relationship because she believed she could not survive on her own, but transformed her life by challenging her limiting beliefs and developed self-efficacy. It shows us how to develop mastery behaviour with a six part plan.
‘Women & Risk’ helped me to recognize self-defeating beliefs and inquire into them. I have worked on setting goals and I had never thought of going skiing until reading this book. I even considered going with Ski Yoga Magic Holidays to the snow as it sounds great!
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