In my practice, I tend to talk a lot with my female-identifying patients about feeling under-appreciated, overlooked, or burned out. I write a lot about parentification, and true, many of these women have experienced that phenomena. Often, growing up parentified has made them into successful leaders whom others look toward to run things, but they continue to report a nagging feeling of invisibility and what seems to be exhaustion at a cellular and psychic level. The common denominator I have found in many of these women is this: they lack a solid sense of their own voice and how to use it.

What do I mean by "voice," exactly? There are a few components, as I see it, that make up our individual voices, and that come up time and time again in........

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