by Catherine O'Kane | May 22, 2019 | Leadership
I was honoured in February to be nominated for the Women of Worth Foundation award for Leader of the Year 2019. Almost as soon as the email hit my inbox, I ran into myself! I felt guilty inviting people to the event just for me, and worse asking them to attend when I...
by Catherine O'Kane | Dec 11, 2018 | Personal Growth
And, as with all of the strategies we develop, mine created the very experience I was trying to avoid. Making yourself needed will never result in feeling wanted, chosen, important or good enough. Instead, overfunctioning sets a contract up with others that says...
by Catherine O'Kane | Dec 10, 2018 | Personal Growth
Note: this is a continuation of the story begun in Face Yourself First – Part 1. If you haven’d read that post yet, go do that before reading this one. When I was young, I found my refuge in books. I read between the lines of Snow White, Cinderella and...
by Catherine O'Kane | Dec 9, 2018 | Personal Growth
I was one of those little girls who was always on the outside of the group. Through careful study and imitation of the group I could work my way ‘in’, but then I would say or do something that would put me right back on the outside again. I lived in a small town,...
