On October 9, 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old Pakistani student and education activist, was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Like people around the world, I was stunned. My shock quickly turned to outrage at such horrific violence against a young girl courageously speaking out for girls’ right [...]
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Feeling Stuck? 4 Tips to Move On
Are you ready, fed-up, praying for change? There comes a time to shut down what doesn’t work. A time to look deep within…and to move on. Being stuck may feel insurmountable; actually it is a habit, a comfort-zone of settling for false security. 4 Tips To Move On From Stuck-ness Acknowledge: “I’m done with this.” [...]
Change Changes Everything
It took me a while to realize this, and then it was only because it hurt. Badly. Life, world, me – everything hurt. Let me be frank and straightforward, for this is not an occasion for fancy writing: Chris wanted a divorce. Once. He walked into the house, I remember it clearly, it was a [...]
How Healthy Is Your Energetic Bank Account?
Practicing yoga is like making a deposit into an energetic investment account. Every little bit helps, and it will grow exponentially depending on the commitment made to build up the reserve. Just as the account can be piddled away through mindless spending, your precious energy can be depleted through mindless living. We save things to [...]
How To Get “Him” To Change
January signals a fresh start, at least the noble intention of transformation. This kind of change consists of either sweeping resolutions, or small-step evolutions for personal goals. However, what if the person you live with does not entertain even the slightest thought about change, let alone a glorious transformation? Many women who read self-help books [...]
The Power of Intention: How Miracles Happen
‘There is a light, A certain kind of light, That is shone on me” Every passage of time has a song. This has been it. The song. The song that got played a thousand times, as a thousand suns rose golden, and a thousand suns set pink and when a thousand stars [...]
Why I’m Not Setting New Year’s Resolutions
After all the fuss and celebration surrounding New Year’s, how much has actually changed? What have those resolutions amounted to? Once the festivities die down, there’s little left to remind us of our resolve. And it seems the new year often masks a continuation of old habits and routines, despite how loudly we hail its [...]
What if We Resolved to Have No More Resolutions?
A new year, a new beginning, and a new set of impulsive, unrealistic are written down in the front of our brand new journal.
3 Steps to Finding Your Perfect Partner
Have you ever stopped to think about how rarely we think about the traits we want in a partner in more than a passing way? Do you find that you seek a physical type and then hope that they have the character traits that you desire? Or, do you find yourself imagining that you can [...]
What Is The Value Of Marriage?
There is a lot of attention in the media and in the political discourse about the definition of marriage. Should it be reserved for one particular union, that of a man and women, or should it be open to people that are lovingly committed to forming a union regardless of their gender? It seems in [...]
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