I was scanning the news a while back, reading sound bytes from voters, explaining their support of Donald Trump. I was especially interested in one from a woman who shared that she supported Trump because she found him to be a “strong leader.”
A strong leader.
A strong leader?!?
A series of lights went on in my mind. I realized that the ways this woman defines strength and leadership are vastly different than how I define strength and leadership. Worlds apart. Universes apart.
here's where i drop 'em like it's hot, from my Feminine Genius to yours.
How to be happy/happier (especially this holiday season)
Here in the United States where I’m writing from, it is almost Thanksgiving.
It’s a holiday that is ideally about giving thanks. And about gathering with folks you love, to give thanks with.
However, because it’s an American holiday, and we love to mark our holidays by ingesting massive amounts of food and sweets, it is also about eating in one meal the amount you might ordinarily eat in a week. But I digress.
It’s ideally a happy, thanks-filled time of year, but for a lot of us, it’s not set up to bring us a lot of happiness. Perhaps quite the opposite.
I have something that I think will help. And bring more real sweetness and happiness to you.
It’s a short video, 5 minutes and 59 seconds, in which I walk you through the non-negotiable ingredient in joy. It’s titled, “How to be a happy woman.”
What a goddess looks like
I’m getting old. As the mirror, endless Zoom video conferences, and my 9-year old son all like to remind me.
I’m going to turn 48 in a few weeks. And even though the life expectancy in my family is around 88, I’m still on the older side of middle age.
But must “old” be the incriminating label it is often meant to be?
No.
Because this — at exactly this age, at precisely this weight, with every one of these gray hairs — is what a goddess looks like.
A few years after we worked together, I reached out to one of my former clients, Carey. I wanted to know how things were going for her in terms of what we had been working on — feeling comfortable in her own skin, powerful, whole, alive, and in touch with her sensuality.
Some good news for bad break-ups
the good news in a bad breakup …
i don’t mean this in the “every cloud has a silver lining” way.
a bad breakup leaves us in a really dark place. which feels bad. and wrong. and like we’ve done something wrong. but even so, inside all that intensity is some really good news.
about five years ago, i sat at a table with my then-partner, trying to make sense of a big relationship rupture. it was a really nice japanese restaurant and i was so upset and crying so hard i couldn’t even taste the five-star rated food.
then an odd thing happened. a moment of grace really.
Black Friday in June!
Will you join me?
Here’s what I mean …. on this Friday June 19 let’s put our dollars consciously into Black (and Indiginous and People of Color) communities.
Juneteenth, June 19 (which this year falls on a Friday) is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, when news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were now free, finally reached Galveston, Texas. (2.5 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, but that’s another story).
The sobering truth is that in the USA, white people (mostly white men) own about 90% of everything.
It’s easy to support them; we do every day, every minute. Let’s consciously support the REST of our communities with our attention and money. Let’s do some leg-work and amplify the work of BIPOC-led businesses and organizations across our regions.
