Marilyn Graman & Maureen Walsh
Life Works Books

The last thirty years have brought many changes in society. Women run boardrooms, university classrooms, executive offices and major businesses; they independently own their homes, and travel around the world. Many have spent years in school and on a career path to "have it all." Still, there's a feeling of discontent among many women. They often question their decisions, doubt themselves and fear they've missed something even though they've come a long way, baby.

According to NYC-based psychotherapist Marilyn Graman, women feel discontent because they've been following a path created to suit men and their standards of achievement and success. Women are not men and they are no less powerful if they allow their natural nurturing, cooperative energies to guide them. By peeling away cultural, family, and individual layers of external influence, the authors say, women can create authentically female lives, ones brimming with possibilities. This practical, how-to manual helps women rediscover the perceptions, patterns, pleasures, and power of being female.

Graman and Maureen Walsh, a successful businesswoman, are cofounders of Life Works Inc., an organization designed to help women tap into their unique powers to find personal fulfillment. Together, they bring over 50 years of experience and expertise to their step-by-step guide for women who have achieved success in the workplace but yearn for more depth, richness and fulfillment in their lives and don't know how to find it. THE FEMALE POWER WITHIN - A GUIDE TO LIVING A GENTLER, MORE MEANINGFUL LIFE describes the personal side of womanhood, likening female power to an energy source that has been dimmed for too long. Plug into it, they say, and women will illuminate the world.

THE FEMALE POWER WITHIN explores:

Why women must go beyond feminism, embracing a reordering of their lives - a "Quiet Revolution" - in order to live more authentically.

Where the past - contradictory cultural values, limiting family expectations, and other critical voices from childhood - prevents women from living fully in the present.

How a personal journey through the concepts of the book can help women access their authenticity, freeing them to tap into powerful natural abilities: compassion, communication, playfulness, nurturing, and acceptance

How acting from their female power will allow them to feel more like themselves, no longer needing depression or anxiety relieving drugs, and touch more often what they want in their lives.

Programs & Topics

The Natural Power of Being a Woman - An intense and specific investigation into the natural power that women possess and the inspiration for THE FEMALE POWER WITHIN, Life Works first book. It opens you up to your intuitive abilities, to the possibility of healing, to the developing of authentic self-expression, to the heart space that is the source of love for yourself and others and works on resolving our history, which in the past worked to limit our natural power. For women only.

The Money Work$hop - Playing with real money, you'll look deep into your beliefs and training about this simple medium of exchange. For Men & Women

Having What You Want With A Man - Explore the various aspects of you and your relationships. Find out what you need to shift in order to have a relationship that will encourage and support all the things you want in your life. For women only.

Marilyn Graman

About the authors: Marilyn Graman and Maureen Walsh have received national attention for their workshops to empower women, with articles appearing in Glamour and Elle magazines, as well as The New York Times, The New York Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer. A regular on television and radio, including CNN and FOX News, Marilyn Graman has also spoken before audiences in New York, San Francisco, and Dallas. In addition to leading workshops in New York and Dallas, Maureen Walsh has taught marketing and arts management courses at the collegiate level.

Maureen Walsh