Healing the Success Wound: Align Your Ambition, Find Lasting Career Fulfillment, and End the Cycle of Never-Enough

A revelatory five-step process to help women heal "the success wound," the pain that comes from mistaking success for self-worth, to achieve both personal and professional health and success.

Are you a Grinder, believing that the more you work, the more successful you will be? Or are you a Hider, afraid to leave your comfort zone and wishing you had the courage to pursue your dreams? Maybe you're a Work Hard Play Hard, afraid to slow down and stop the busy-ness that secretly shields you from looking at the real problem underneath. You could be a Pleaser, seeking approval from others often at the expense of your own needs, or a Seeker, hopping from job to job, city to city, with shiny object syndrome, thinking the next thing will fill the void inside or give your life direction.

If you are a successful woman, chances are you've been some or all of these archetypes. Because while women are still supposed to "have it all," being a successful woman still means sacrifice, and for many of us, a heaping scoop of self-doubt as we find ourselves equating our self-worth with our professional success--our success wound. Brooke Taylor knows this all too well: her success wound nearly ruined her promising career at Google and devastated her sense of self.

After taking a step back and honestly assessing her own beliefs, she developed a 5-step program to help other women

(1) diagnose their success wound
(2) discern their toxic success wound strategies
(3) heal their success wound
(4) create a new, internally-guided definition of success
(5) take aligned action towards this vision.

With Healing the Success Wound, readers will adopt a new paradigm of success: aligned ambition--the state of harmony and fulfillment that comes from following"

Author: Brooke Taylor
Publisher: Balance
Published: 05/26/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780306836107

About the Author

Brooke Taylor is a Career Coach, speaker, workshop facilitator, and former Marketing Lead at Google. In the crowded space of career coaching, she is distinguished as an expert in helping transform the lives and careers of over 5,000 high-achieving female leaders at companies like Google, Uber, Coinbase, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Salesforce through healing their success wound. While other thought leaders have talked around the insatiable need for success and validation, she is the first to package it and name it as the "Success Wound." She is a regular spokesperson in the international media across US, UK, Australia and Canada, featured in and contributed to Forbes, Entrepreneur, Hip & Healthy, Business Insider NASDAQ, and The Australian Financial Review. She is a regular keynote speaker at women in business summits including Women@Google Global Summit and have been invited to speak with organizations including the Australian Government, BBC, Google, Uber, General Assembly and many more.