by Deb | May 2, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I want to focus on depression. For anyone who hasn’t experienced depression, it can difficult to understand how devastating it is. They say, “Try to be positive,” or “There’s nothing to be sad about, so what’s the problem?”...
by Deb | Apr 25, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi In his article in the April 16, 2018 issue of the New Yorker, Author and Pulitzer-Prize winner Junot Diaz breaks his years of silence about being sexually assaulted as a child. His heart-rending account, which...
by Deb | Apr 18, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation
Wispy memories: My father fondling me when I was a toddler. Dragging me around my room by my ankles when I was twelve while, in my mind’s eye, my mother is downstairs in the kitchen calmly drinking a martini. I had no voice, no protection, no power. Sexual abuse tears...
by Deb | Apr 13, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I want to highlight the #SayHerName Campaign, which focuses on the need to call attention to police violence against Black women and women of color. This violence remains largely invisible and ignored in the media coverage...
by Deb | Apr 6, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has announced that the theme for this year’s Sexual Awareness Month is “Embrace Your Voice.” For all women and girls to be able to embrace their voices, however, we have to break the taboo on talking about sexual...
