I find that many of the women I coach have no notion about putting themselves at the center. Self-centered is a foreign notion to women raised to be self-sacrificing, self-denying and self-effacing. Feminism may have brought these women into the workplace, but it didn’t erase the negative self-messages. More likely, the women I grew up with and our younger sisters, stretching forward to the young multi-tasking women of today, simply learned to do more and want less.

Deborah gently helps women understand how to carve sacred space for themselves. The book is practical – none of the rituals she describes are difficult or time-consuming or even an impossible stretch for women who have never thought about incorporating ritual into their lives. Deborah writes the way she speaks. The book is loving and warm and supportive. The ideas are useable and important. This is a book I want every multi-role fulfilling, multi-tasking woman in my life to own. This is a book they will cherish.