Dancing ‘Round The Handbags Book

A life changing book and workshops to support hard-working women to dance to their own tunes and find balance between work and life.

Overview

Dancing Round the Handbags® is a self-development book, series of workshops and one-to-one coaching aimed at hard-working businesswomen. Using the metaphor of the ‘handbag’ and the ‘dance’, it supports women to create clarity about personal direction whilst maintaining balance between work and life.

The Dance

Chapter 1 in the book is The Dance’. The Dance is a metaphor for what women do each day; dance to the tunes of others. These are all the day-to-day tunes that either project women towards their purpose and goals, or hold you back, creating imbalance, stress and guilt. The multiple roles of mother, wife, boss, friend, daughter, lover, cook, and colleague etc. means that a woman sometimes dances to too many tunes all at once. This often results in rarely having time for self, soon forgetting her own dreams and doubting her unique potential; her own music.

The Handbag

The handbag in this book is a metaphor for being female and the remaining Chapters are different handbag items; each being a metaphor for varying aspects of a woman’s work and life. For example, The Mirror chapter explores your image; how you see yourself, The Lipstick chapter explores how women mask stress to show resilience and coping (‘putting on a brave face’) and The Diary chapter explores work/life time and priorities. The handbag represents a different facet of you; who you truly are, and who you can become.

By reviewing your dances and de-cluttering your handbag, you will return to the dance floor of life, to dance to the tunes that you want to dance to.

The Chapters of the book are detailed below, and each one uses metaphor, exercises, stories and coaching to support you to dance your best life:

1. My Dance The tunes you dance to
2. My Tissues Health & Wellbeing
3. My Diary Time and space
4. My Lipstick Emotional masks and barriers
5. My Mirror Confidence, Esteem and Worth
6. My Phone Networks
7. My Purse Choices and changes for work and life
8. My Snack Personal & professional development
9. My Keys Keys to your heart and success
10. My Photos Relationships
11. My Perfume Authenticity
12. My Pen Goals for work and life

In this Brit Writers award winning book, Lynne stops the music for a while, removes you from the dancefloor of life, opens up the handbag that is you, and encourages you to explore your potential and balance. By the end you will have de-cluttered, re-packed and renewed the handbag that is you, and be ready to step back onto the dancefloor ready to dance to your own tune.