High achiever psychology is characterized by extensive and distinctive paradoxes - seemingly contradictory elements that coexist and create both extraordinary capabilities and unique challenges. These paradoxes aren't flaws to be fixed, but dynamics to be understood and navigated.
Power Drivers operate across multiple dimensions of your experience—mental, emotional, somatic, and energetic. They shape how you perceive opportunities, respond to challenges, and create your reality. Three of these key Power Drivers include: Nervous System Regulation: How your body-mind system processes information, stress, and experience Connection Continuum: How you relate to others, yourself, and higher principles Resistance Paradox: How resistance limits progress while offering growth opportunities When consciously mastered rather than unconsciously driven by [...]
The success of high achievers comes not just from what they do, but from their distinct psychology. This unique way of being—seen in trailblazers, outliers, and those who are different—creates both extraordinary results and specific challenges. Power Drivers are the fundamental forces that shape your state of mind, define your success, and influence the quality of your life. The Power Drivers that fuel your success are also connected to your most persistent challenges. Recognizing [...]
The hidden price of being different: For high achievers, health challenges, relationship strain, business problems, and mental and emotional issues aren't unrelated occurrences—they're intimately connected to the same Power Drivers that fuel extraordinary outward success. If not understood and addressed, these dynamics may exacerbate current challenges, or continue to create new ones across every area of life — eroding joy and well-being despite outward achievements, or eventually undermining the very success they helped create. [...]
For women navigating breast cancer—especially high achievers who've always charted their own course—this journey offers unique challenges and extraordinary opportunities for transformation that extend far beyond medical treatment alone. Beyond the Battle Metaphor The traditional "fighting cancer" narrative falls short for high-achieving women. it actually can be quite harmful – an important subject for another post. The Ascending Warrior approach, rather than focusing on battling or merely surviving, transforms the experience into a gateway [...]
Whether you shatter limitations – or create them – comes down to mastering your Power Drivers and the field of consciousness from which they emerge.
This principle is crucial for high achievers - not just in leading others, but in navigating our own growth. Our drive for excellence often triggers our resistance to accepting current reality, pushing us to force change rather than allow transformation.
For high achievers, this resistance may show up as: [...]
For decades, high achievers have shared their feelings and experiences with me privately – in therapy and mentoring sessions, behind closed doors. Now, as I bring these conversations beyond individual and group sessions into the open, something extraordinary is beginning to unfold.
As these hidden patterns are acknowledged publicly, it creates permission for collective recognition and healing. The energy locked in private struggles begins to transform into creative power. [...]
High Achievers – outliers, trailblazers, innovators – are often labeled “difficult.” Too intense, too demanding, too argumentative, too dismissive of others.
The very qualities that make us “difficult” are often the same ones that drive our greatest contributions. [...]
I have a question I've asked myself for years. I call it my Litmus Test question; it helps me make decisions and track what I'm doing – and who I'm being– every single day.
I've shared it with my patients, clients, and students as well as on my website, in posts, and when I speak. [...]
