Playing a New Game: A Black Woman's Guide to Being Well and Thriving in the Workplace

by Tammy Lewis Wilborn, PhD PhD

Overview

Drawing on first-hand clinical insight and scientific research, Dr. Wilborn offers much-needed advice on how women of color can be high-performing and successful professionally, without sacrificing their physical, mental, and emotional wellness. 

Black and brown women have been making profound strides in leadership and professional achievement, despite facing the added hurdles of both sexism and racism in the workplace. But so often, excelling at work comes at the expense of their wellness: the chronic stressors and demands on Black women can result in negative physical health outcomes such as sleep disturbance, hypertension, and diabetes, and negative mental health outcomes including anxiety and depression. We cannot talk about career advancement for Black and brown women without talking about strategies that promote their total wellbeing.

Playing a New Game offers women a new way forward, in which ambition and wellness can not only coexist, but bolster each other. With insights from her 20 years of professional counseling experience and extensive research, mental health expert Dr. Tammy Wilborn expands the dialogue on BIPOC women’s experiences of race and gender stereotypes at work, exploring them as a wellness issue.  Through her evidence-based best practices that promote self-care and self-empowerment as necessary tools for professional success, Black and brown women can flip the script by prioritizing their wellness even as they advance professionally. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538708347
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	1,051,361
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr. Tammy Wilborn is a board-certified licensed professional counselor-supervisor and owner and Chief Clinical Officer of Wilborn Clinical Services, LLC, a multi-service practice based in New Orleans, Louisiana, that provides mental health counseling, clinical supervision, continuing education workshops, consultations, and wellness events. Dr. Wilborn previously served as visiting assistant professor of counselor education at the University of New Orleans and adjunct professor of counseling at Xavier University of Louisiana. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience working with a diverse clientele of children, adolescents, and adults. She is an in-demand keynote speaker who has spoken at premier events such as the inaugural HuffPost How to Raise a Kid parenting conference, ESSENCE Fest, and LinkedIn’s TransformHER conference for Black and Latinx women in tech. Dr. Wilborn has presented extensively on wellness, mental health, Black women’s work experiences, self-care, cultural responsiveness, and women’s empowerment to national, regional, state, and local organizations and professional associations.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 "Get Your Education" 7

Chapter 2 "You're an Overachiever" 25

Chapter 3 Changing the Game: Wellness as the New Playbook for the Workplace 47

Chapter 4 Take Care of the Basics 63

Chapter 5 Protect Your Peace 83

Chapter 6 Have 20/20 Vision 113

Chapter 7 "No." Is a Complete Sentence 129

Chapter 8 Find Your People 147

Chapter 9 Battle Wisely 163

Chapter 10 Know When to Hold and When to Walk Away 183

Epilogue: It's Our Time! 203

Acknowledgments 205

Notes 209

Index 215

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Tammy Wilborn's Playing a New Game is not just a book. It's a manual, a strategy. This therapeutic and empowering must-have for Black women is the permission we need to bring our full selves into workspaces.”—LaTonya M. Summers, PhD LMHC LCMHC-S, Assistant Professor, Jacksonville University, Founder, Black Mental Health Symposium; Publisher, Black Mental Health Today

“Playing a New Game provides much needed insight and solutions on black women's career advancement experiences through the lens of wellness. Dr. Wilborn’s considerable professional experience enables her to illuminate what black women need to do to eliminate the superwoman syndrome and to win the career game, while playing on their own terms. Bravo!”—Deb Elam, President & CEO, Corporate Playbook

"Playing a New Game is essential reading for all Black women currently struggling to navigate race and gender stereotypes at work. It offers practical, evidence-based strategies on how real self-care and self-empowerment can be tools to help you heal and continue to advance in your career. Business leaders who currently employ, or seek to employ, Black women will also find this book to be a necessary resource. As we begin to define the future of work, I believe this candid, powerful book will have a critical role in helping us create healthier and more inclusive workplaces."—Jeanette Jordan, Strategic Business Consultant & Executive Coach

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