Powerplay

“There is just one other aspect of the healing process I learned, and that’s the importance of faith. There were so many times when I wanted to give in, when I wanted to walk away and give up the fight. Even worse, there were those awful moments when I doubted myself. In those moments, I thought I had lost everything that mattered most to me – my home, my work and my faith. A person doesn’t have to be religious to know hat it mean’s to lose one’s faith. And yet, without it, without some kind of support, it’s hard to go on. And many people don’t. I know. I have read their letters.

But I did manage to go on , and in retrospect I see why. I went on because it was suggested to me that some good might come of all this. That when I was through with it, there might be something in the experience that I could salvage. That’s important, whether one hears it in a church or a psychiatrist’s office. You learn not the regret the past but to make something of it. You learn not to deny the pain but to grow from it. In that sense, telling my story was the core of my recovery. I looked at what happened to me, and then shared it with someone else. In the end, that’s how I have graduated from this experience. This book is my graduation from everything that happened to me at Bendix.”

“The emphasis for us has been more on people. For men, the emphasis has been more on careers. I’m quite content being a nurturer and believing in so many of those human values commonly attributed to women. But applied in the corporate world, these same values can work against us— unless we are careful. And I wasn’t careful enough.”