Heal Your Career Wounds - by Mandy Tang (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The Tools You Need to Release the Pains of Workplace Trauma and Step into Your Power

Career coach and holistic healer Mandy Tang understands the growing number of people who are facing unprecedented challenges in the job market and longing to experience joy, creativity, and authenticity at work. Having healed her own career wounds and carved out her dream life, she offers a beacon of hope to all those who are burned-out, stressed-out, dealing with a toxic boss, or otherwise seeking refuge from the storms of corporate America. Through shamanic practices, journal prompts, and self-reflection exercises, she shows how to:

- Free yourself from harmful workplace patterns, set healthy boundaries, and release negative energy
- Let go of self-blame and create your own closure by rewriting your story
- Discover your unique medicine and tap into your power to design your fulfilling new relationship to work

Review Quotes

"As a culture, we need this book now more than ever. Mandy Tang's insights on career and identity are genuinely life-changing because they are refreshing. Tang wrote Heal Your Career Wounds in a way that feels like she's sitting down with you, walking you through your own personal coaching session. She does an excellent job of reaching inside the reader, offering solutions to complicated problems. This book is perfect for those of us who are hungry to transform the quality of our lives by freeing ourselves from our own blockages."
-- Kitty Knorr, content creator, artist, poet, and author of Make Something, Break Something, @kittyknorr

"Mandy Tang's writing style turns a topic that could be a challenging read into an approachable how-to guide. Reading through Tang's book feels like sitting with her in a one-on-one coaching session. Insightful observations, thought-provoking questions, guidance for improved thinking pathways, and step-by-step solutions -- all the answers you need are in the palm of your hand."
-- Helene Segura, author of The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter, Not Longer

"Heal Your Career Wounds is the kind of book every person should read, whether you are someone already deeply connected to your intuition and creativity or whether your life feels set in its ways. As Mandy Tang says in the introduction, work is usually not just a job (even if we tell ourselves it is). It has the potential to shape who we are and how we see ourselves in the world. Reading this book is the perfect, safe first step to embark on the work of disconnecting our self-image and self-worth from our careers. It's really hard and painful work, but Heal Your Career Wounds feels like a warm hug followed by a little nudge: Tang knows how hard this work is but also how much better we can feel if we walk down this path. I've been on a very similar journey to Tang's, having quit my full-time job a few years ago and spent the time since confronting all my stories, fears, and beliefs that built up through my various work traumas. I wish this book had existed when I first started on that journey, but I am so grateful it exists now! Many, many people will benefit from reading it."
-- Miriam Tinberg, content creator, @miriam_tinny

"Career coach Mandy Tang is the cheerleader and trusted guide you've always wanted in your corner. This book is for anyone seeking the inner authority, clarity of purpose, and momentum to build the life they deserve. In a noisy world, it can be hard to hear your own voice, especially when it has been quieted by burnout and everyone else's expectations. Tang has spent years sitting with professionals at every crossroads, asking questions that cut through the noise. In Heal Your Career Wounds, she distills the hard-won insights from hundreds of coaching conversations to help you awaken the imagination and excitement that have always lived inside you. The world will keep evolving. So will you. This book helps you navigate both."
-- Sophia Sun, creator of Product Playbook, @productplaybook_

"In Heal your Career Wounds, Mandy Tang has taken a holistic, embodied approach to dealing with the real emotional and physical toll of simply trying to make it in the working world. Beyond naming the concerns, Tang focuses on pragmatic, effective exercises to heal, rebuild, and arrest further trauma before it starts."
-- Margo Stern, author of Good Job: Designing Interviews and Interviewing in Design

About the Author

Mandy Tang runs the popular YouTube and TikTok channels Career Coach Mandy, where she talks about life purpose, career identity, and rediscovering your creativity. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and is a certified trauma-informed yoga instructor and shamanic practitioner. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

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