“How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet “You don’t spell it . . . you feel it.” – Pooh — A.A. Milne, “Winnie The Pooh” You were raised on tales of Prince Charming coming to your rescue and thereby proving his undying love. You’ve seen numerous movies and read many books where strong, feisty women are …
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A Valentine’s Gift for You
February 13th, 2014 | Posted by in Relationships | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on A Valentine’s Gift for You)Five Holiday Gifts for Your Daughter as You Teach Her to Challenge Her Girly Thoughts
December 12th, 2013 | Posted by in Adolescents | Women's Issues - (6 Comments)What Are Girly Thoughts? Your daughter is a girl, so isn’t she supposed to be thinking thoughts like a girl? Yes, but not these thoughts. Girly thoughts is the subtle conditioning that begins in girlhood and continues throughout life that results in women feeling less than. These are the thoughts that tell us how we …
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Using Your Resilience When the Holidays Threaten to Be Not So Happy
December 6th, 2013 | Posted by in Relationships - (Comments Off on Using Your Resilience When the Holidays Threaten to Be Not So Happy)It’s the holidays . . . so be happy Isn’t that what all the songs, the stories, the TV specials tell us? Happy is even the first or second sentiment of all of the messages we receive on everything from our postage stamps to the music in elevators: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Eid Greetings, Happy …
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Sex and Love Addiction: The Signs of an Intimacy Disorder in Women
November 25th, 2013 | Posted by in Sex Addiction - (1 Comments)I wrote in a previous blog about the universal signs and symptoms of sexual addiction, noting that all sex addicts display, in some form or fashion, the following: Preoccupation: obsessing about sex/romance, making the fantasy and pursuit of it the number one priority in life, etc. Loss of Control: inability to limit or curtail sexual/romantic …
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