You’ve bitten your tongue. Smiled through the resentment. Carried the weight—emotional, logistical, and otherwise—just to keep the peace. But what if keeping the peace is what’s keeping you stuck?
In her eye-opening debut, therapist and Psychology Today blogger Tonya Lester dares women to stop being “the easy one” in every room. Push Back is your permission slip—and your playbook—for standing up, speaking out, and showing up fully in your relationships, your work, and your life.
Lester doesn’t just hand you scripts—she hands you the truth: most traditional relationship advice gaslights women into silence. It ignores uncooperative partners, emotional labor overload, and the cultural conditioning that tells women to nurture everyone but themselves. No more.
With exercises, real-life examples, and decades of therapeutic insight, Push Back teaches you how to:
Say no without guilt
Set boundaries that stick
Navigate tough conversations with clarity and confidence
Deal with the backlash that follows when you stop overfunctioning
This isn’t about being mean. It’s about being honest. Push Back is for every woman who's tired of shrinking to make others comfortable—and ready to take up space instead.