Life Beyond The Glass Ceiling: Time To Rise

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After Hillary’s defeat, I searched for a way to comprehend what had just happened. I grieved the 2016 election’s betrayal of the working women’s movement’s promise. In 2016 misogyny defeated a woman leader poised to make history. A few weeks after the election I stared at the dark TV screen too outraged to watch the news. An image came into
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Beyond the youth culture: the four seasons of life

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Each season of life offers special opportunities to live and grow into more of who we are. The four seasons: Spring is new life emerging and growing. Summer is blossoming and more growth. Autumn is living out loud and visible in full color. Winter is the end of physical life. Our age during each of these seasons depends on the
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How to know what’s possible

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Creating something new requires both personal capacity and social conditions. These trees, for example, grew because the trees were healthy and because of favorable conditions of earth, air, water, light and temperature. When you have an idea or an opportunity comes your way, you too combine your personal beliefs, confidence and skills and social conditions that impact what you can
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What it takes to embrace change

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Designing what’s next requires you to move from life as you know it. It’s natural to protect what exists. We all do it. The first step in moving into your new life (and in being your own life coach) is to shift from the mindset of protecting the status quo into embracing the idea that you are creating something new.You
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“What” comes before “how”

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When you want to create change, you combine imagination and implementation. Too often the time to imagine is shortchanged. The well intentioned “get the job done”  rush past imagination to implementation is a key cause of change initiative failures. It’s natural to think of an idea and then ask  “how will you do that?” Unfortunately, when the “how” is inserted
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How life transitions work

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Today we are experiencing more life transitions and at a faster pace than any time in human history. Until now we didn’t need to know how to navigate a transition and design what’s next. Transitions were part of the life cycle and they just happened. One part of your life ended. Another part began. What’s happening now? Since the economy’s
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Selfhood: spirit, heart, mind, body connection

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In working with women for over 40 years and in my own life transitions, I discovered that the key to women’s power is our selfhood strength and resilience. When our spirit, heart, mind, body connection is strong — when we trust, love, know and value ourselves for who we are, we have the inner container that is our wellspring of
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Self-love affirmation

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A key to developing and strengthening selfhood is to experience feelings of inner care, connection, nurture and well-being of self-love that are stronger than an inner critic voice or feeling unworthy. This affirmation practice is designed to turn on and turn up the warmth of your inner light. The exercise incorporates the Chinese energy medicine concept of energy flow. The
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