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Not Saying No, Does Not Mean Yes

It was ten years ago. She was 27 and he was 60. He was a powerful man who could advance her career, and she was willing to meet with him...

The Remarkable Truth About Giving

Back in 2005, when my “picture perfect” life began to dissolve, I sank into a deep depression. My life as I knew it would never be the...

Lift Our Voices

It was my first real job. I was 16 years old and working as a check-out clerk at a local grocery store. I loved the independence of...

Redefining Trauma

Years ago I identified myself as the problem in my marriage. I felt that the only explanation for being so repulsed by intimacy was that...

The Truth About Vulnerability

Vulnerability has been a buzz word ever since researcher Brene Brown’s TED talk went viral in 2011. According to Brown, allowing...

The Empathy Test

Can we feel empathy in our bodies? What exactly does it feel like? How will we know when we feel it? Try this little test. Click on the...

Meet My Friend, Shame

Not too long ago I received an email from a new friend. We had just spent five days together with several colleagues working on a book of...

Chasing Well-Being

I recently attended the Women’s Conference in Boston, MA. For one full day, thirteen thousand women—mostly from the corporate...

Moving Beyond Trauma Informed

Back in 2009, the phrase trauma informed was something I was beginning to hear about. Since then, the classification of agencies,...