Breaking Up With Busy ─ Solutions for the Overscheduled Woman

Overbooking and under-sleeping have become status symbols, having it all synonymous with doing it all, and uni-tasking only for under-achievers. It may not be possible to return to a time when driving wasn’t a time to read messages, family dinner peak Tweet time, and “playing” with kids at the park the perfect time to check Facebook, but Yvonne Tally wants to give the millions of women who are tired of being tired some options. A successful career woman herself, Tally knows that quality self-time isn’t working on the phone while getting a mani / pedi or guzzling cocktails to wind down. She stresses the benefits of living a more sane and balanced life — from longevity, looks, and libido to self-actualization and spiritual connection. To get there, she details methodical, incremental ways to change habits, transform thinking, and reconnect with one’s own unique, personal sense of play and pleasure.

Yvonne Tally has been a healthy lifestyle coach for nearly 20 years. She is cofounder of Poised Inc., which, among many other things, offers Pilates training to cancer survivors through the Stanford University Cancer Center. Tally founded The Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarves charity that provides headscarves to cancer patients, is the Meditation and De-Stressing Specialist for the city of Palo Alto, and lives in Northern California.