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The career guide that every ambitious achiever needs to actually feel successful
Praise for Healing the Success Wound
Few people understand the complex psychological tax of ambition as well as Brooke Taylor. Healing the Success Wound is a masterclass in deconstructing why 'making it' never feels like enough. A vital read for anyone ready to experience the career fulfillment they've been searching for.
Farnoosh Torabi
Financial journalist and author of A Healthy State of Panic
Healing The Success Wound is an essential contribution to conversations about career burnout. Brooke goes beyond surface-level solutions (that don't work in the long term) by incorporating deeper, essential inquiries into what is possible when we stop chasing the hungry ghosts of external approval and validation. Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is surrender. With grace, warmth, and wisdom, Brooke generously shows you how.
Jenny Blake
Author of Pivot and Free Time
Healing the Success Wound is a recalibration for anyone tired of the never-enough grind. Brooke Taylor teaches you how to stop defining worth by metric after metric and start uncovering the root of what drives you.
Jenny Wood
New York Times Bestselling Author of Wild Courage
Healing the Success Wound gives a name to the vague sense of dissatisfaction so many high achievers feel at work—and provides a path forward. If you’re constantly striving, but never feel fulfilled, this timely, transformative book is for you.
Simone Stolzoff
Author of The Good Enough Job and How To Not Know
Brooke Taylor rightly encourages women leaders to bring ALL of themselves in work, family and life. This includes the deepest source of knowing, our spiritual awareness.
Lisa Miller PhD
Bestselling Author of The Awakened Brain and Professor, Columbia University
Healing the Success Wound is the guidebook every unfulfilled achiever needs to align their ambition, find lasting career fulfillment, and end the cycle of never-enough.
This book is for the professional who feels like no matter how much they achieve, it never feels like enough. You’ve been suffering with an undiagnosed ailment that I call your success wound, which is the pain that comes from mistaking success for self-worth.
The success wound is the real reason you’re stuck in toxic cycles at work, questioning your worth, unclear on what you want to do next, and desperate for answers that typical solutions like therapy, burnout recovery, leadership development, and perfectionism are missing.
If you’ve ever thought or said one of these, you have a success wound:
- I could always be doing more.
- I feel lost and constantly question if I’m on the right career path.
- The wrong look from my boss can send me reeling for days.
- I have big dreams but fear of failure stops me before I even start.
- I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I should be happy, so why do I feel empty?
- I constantly feel unsafe, as if my money or job could be taken from me at any moment.
- I'm always onto the next thing, so I never fully enjoy what I've just accomplished.
- I have big dreams but fear of failure stops me before I even start.
What You’ll Learn
This isn’t just a book about work-life balance—it’s a masterclass in psychological and professional liberation. Through clinical insights and real-world frameworks, you will learn how to:
- Diagnose the Wound: Identify the specific childhood and cultural scripts that tied your identity to your output.
- Deconstruct your Unfulfilled Achiever Identity: Learn how to retain your excellence while shedding the anxiety-driven perfectionism that fuels it.
- Align Your Ambition: Discover a new concept of success that radically reframes your career and your worth.
- Rebuild Your Confidence: Implement daily practices to ground your self-esteem in your being, not your doing, ensuring your confidence is unshakeable regardless of your KPIs.
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About Brooke
Brooke Taylor is a highly sought after career coach to female executives at Fortune 500 companies, an international speakers, former Googler, and now, an author! She helps unfulfilled achievers who are successful on paper to actually feel that way by healing their success wound and stepping into their own aligned ambition.
While other thought-leaders have talked around the idea of equating success with self-worth, Brooke is the first to name it and create a proven program of healing it so that high achievers can achieve the heights of success and the depth of fulfillment they are craving.