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Stress-free Stress Busting
Headlines: Five Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress! Ten Ways to manage Stress at Work! Stress Management Tips for Executives! Every time you turn around, there is someone giving advice on reducing stress. It’s starting to get stressful. Stress, more noticeable now in the lives of busy women than ever before,…
Top Models Talk about the Importance of Inner Beauty
Every woman, at one time or another, desperately wants to change her appearance, usually in the direction of being a supermodel. Yet if we ordinary women feel a tremendous pressure to look like the images of perfect women that bombard us daily, curiously, the models feel the most pressure of…
The Mind of an Athlete
There are many times in a woman’s life when she needs extra support, but seldom as urgently as when she is pregnant and during the first year after giving birth. In many traditional cultures, the vulnerability of a mother is well known. The pregnant mother is fussed over and pampered,…
C-Suite: C is for Consciousness
Recently, two articles written by women caught my attention. One was by Jillian Berman, writing for the the Huff Post Politics page and the other was by Forté Foundation executive director, Elissa Ellis Sangster in the Financial Times. Ms. Berman’s article focused on the “stunning absence of women at the…
Preventing Post-Partum Depression
There are many times in a woman’s life when she needs extra support, but seldom as urgently as when she is pregnant and during the first year after giving birth. In many traditional cultures, the vulnerability of a mother is well known. The pregnant mother is fussed over and pampered,…
Let’s Talk about Relationships
“We need silence to be able to touch other souls.” – Mother Teresa Let’s talk about relationships. Unless we are a hermit by nature, we want and need relationships to be fulfilled. They are an important medium through which we express our feelings and expand our territory of influence. The…
Does Positive Thinking Work?
My mom and I have a nightly ritual. Before I fall asleep I call her from Iowa, where I live, and chat with her in California, where she lives in an assisted living near my sister and her family. Because of the different time zones, and because she goes to…
The Real Yoga
I attend yoga classes as part of my fitness routine. Something that was an ancient tradition for health and balance in life in the east had become a fad and then a part of our culture in the west. I notice that there are many women in my classes who…
Going Beyond “Darkness” and “Light” into the Silence that Nourishes: A Response to Theologian Barbara Brown Taylor
I was struck by the cover of the April 28th Time Magazine: FINDING GOD IN THE DARK. Beyond Enlightenment: Acclaimed preacher Barbara Brown Taylor argues that strength, purpose, and true faith are found in the shadows. Having just finished my blog post series on the quest for enlightenment, my immediate…
Success without Stress: An Interview with Robin Zabel
Janet: Robin, tell me a little about your career as a lawyer. Did you go to law school directly out of college? Robin: My “legal” career has been a strange one. I guess you could say I was a late bloomer; I didn’t go to law school until my mid-forties.…