WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

They Spoke: What Will We Do?

“I won’t back down,”  Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestine territories, after being sanctioned by Rubio’s State Department. Albanese’s sanctions were triggered by taking positions at [...]

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How Women Give Away Their Power

Women give away their power when they accommodate in a way that stifles their voices, where they don’t honor themselves, but silence themselves because they fear upsetting the other and putting the relationship in jeopardy.  It’s a hard pattern to break because, since the beginning of time, women have been conditioned to please others, [...]

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How Gratitude Can Chase Away the Blues

It is not happiness that makes us grateful.  It is gratefulness that makes us happy.  —Brother David Seindl-Rast In an effort to tackle my Covid blues, which have intensified at the prospect of another solo holiday, I was drawn to the concept that a gratitude practice could make me happier. As I plunged into the gratitude literature, [...]

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Video Therapy: Videos to Match Your Mood

Life under the Orange Monster requires time out to maintain one’s sanity.  Video watching has become a favorite form of escape for many, but with Netflix and its cousins, like Amazon Prime churning out productions at a dizzying rate, choosing a video can be daunting. To facilitate your selection process I’ve developed mood categories [...]

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