Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers, and Life

Best-selling book that reveals what girls think and feel about their daily challenges.

Strengthen your relationship

Build her confidence

Understand girls’ experiences

You are the caring Adult girls need.

In a world that is changing rapidly, it can be difficult to know how to foster communication and provide support for the girls that we teach, parent, mentor and coach. Between social media, friendships, dating culture, academic pressures, bullying, and fear of failure, girls are facing complex challenges. You need concrete strategies to help her succeed.

Helping you help girls

The award-winning book, Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers, and Life, offers relevant insights and concrete strategies that will help you:

Understand girls’ experiences

Gain insights into girls’ realities and understand the unique challenges they face.

Strengthen your relationship

Find proven strategies to better connect with girls and navigate challenges together.

Build her confidence

Equip girls with the skills to build supportive relationships and make good decisions.

Educators & Caregivers Rely on This book

“This is one of the most candid, inspiring, empowering, and generous books you will read this year.”

“I know I will cling to this book for years to come as my girls navigate into and through adolescence.”

“As a school counselor, Girls Without Limits prepares me for the stresses that my students bring to my office.”

About the author

Dr. Lisa Hinkelman is an educator, counselor, researcher and author, who has spent 15 years studying girls’ experiences and educating school counselors, first as a professor and currently as the founder and CEO of Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX). Lisa’s books provide effective strategies, relevant research and case studies to help adults support the girls in their lives. Focused on building self-esteem, enhancing communication and increasing competence, Girls Without Limits is referenced by parents, educators, mentors and coaches throughout the country.

Lisa received her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Education from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, PA and her master’s and doctorate degrees in Counselor Education from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Her ROX program for girls is delivered to more than 6,000 girls annually in schools throughout the country. She trains and educates 3,000+ adults each year through professional development workshops, parent symposiums and conference keynotes on topics including social/emotional learning, stress and pressure, confidence and self-esteem, STEM, sexual harassment/violence and Title IX, school climate and gender equity.

Book Study
Discussion Guide

Download the companion resource for Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers, and Life. This multi-session discussion guide is easily implemented by school staff or with parent groups. The guided curriculum provides an opportunity for educators and caregivers to intentionally discuss the book’s concepts and supports participants in learning concrete strategies to use in day-to-day interactions and conversations with girls.