What to Teach Our Daughters – Stop the Insanity of Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence Statistics reported in 2016 – Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten. Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family. Domestic violence is […]

Dare to Defy the Ending

In an environment in which we can feel fearful, helpless, and even hopeless, this passage written by Brene’ Brown in “Rising Strong” offers you a challenge and an inspiration to encourage you to write your life’s story as you wish to write it; to dare to defy the ending.

Our Deepest Fear – Not

In 2014, Yahoo conducted a survey to identify The Top Ten Fears: Agoraphobia – fear of being trapped, such as a crowded event Trypophobia – fear of irregular patterns of holes or clusters, such as beehives or swiss cheese Xenophobia – fear of people or backgrounds foreign to one’s self Arachnophobia – fear of spiders Coulrophobia […]

Why Are You Afraid of Self-Affirmation?

Over the years I’ve noticed an interesting pattern. Sometimes when a person wants to change a habit or a pattern, s/he is quick to self-judgment and is fearful – yes, fearful – of self-affirmation. Why in the world would anyone be afraid of affirmation? Fear of becoming complacent or lazy “If I acknowledge how successful […]