Challenge, Complexity & Acceptance
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Scars … Reminders to Celebrate or …
In this week’s episode of Your Heroine’s Journey, we dug into the meaty topic of “Scars … Reminders to Celebrate or …” and the truth is, often we do a lot of the “or” in that equation. Scars come in all shapes and sizes — physically visible on the skin, and then there are the […]
Winter Solstice Opportunity
Friday, December 21, 2018, is the Winter Solstice, the longest, darkest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. The Winter Solstice is also the rebirth of light, in that each day becomes a bit longer after the Solstice. In the land of The Modern Goddess, we pause at the Winter Solstice to acknowledge the […]
Self-Care or Self-Indulgence?
All things considered, during the ten months of going back and forth from CA to TX to help my mom deal with her Hurricane Harvey flooded home, prep for the house sale and the move, and settling her into her new place in CA, I did well with self-care. While I didn’t maintain my full-on […]
When Your Chief Operating Officer of Control Runs Rampant
Standing in my childhood home’s bedroom surrounded by piles of random things collected from multiple rooms waiting to be packed into moving boxes (Christmas china, antique linens and quilt pieces, books, collectible figurines), piles of clothing to be donated, and piles of “I don’t know what to do with this” stuff (school and generations-old memorabilia, […]
Marilyn, Aphrodite and You
There is a famed story about Marilyn Monroe walking down 5th Avenue in New York City with a friend, clad in a headscarf and raincoat, discussing fame and stardom. New Yorkers bustled by, not paying Norma Jean any attention. She turned to her friend and asked, “Do you want me to be her,” meaning Marilyn. […]
Vulnerability, Resilience and Asking For Help
“What is your current resilience factor?” I asked a client recently. I could have made a batch of gluten-free cookies in the pause before her answer. “I don’t think I’m very resilient at all,” she said in a measured tone, trying to hide that she was weeping. “Woo-hoo, pot of gold!” I thought. Then, with […]
Vulnerability and Strength
There’s an old saying that goes something like: We must learn to bend like the willow tree or we may snap like the mighty oak. I love watching the sway of willow trees in the wind. There is a gracefulness and beauty as their limbs flutter. Allowing yourself to flow and dance in life’s winds can […]
Invisibility in Middle Age
In exploring the great invisibility of middle-aged women, I decided to do my geek out thing and look up the definition of invisible in several dictionaries. Whether as a noun or adjective, invisible speaks to something or someone being unrecognized or ignored and often, marginalized as a result. Let that settle in. We aren’t seen. […]
The Power Of The Middle Part 2
About two years ago I unwittingly stumbled upon what I now know is the cultural invisibility of women in their middle years. Clients shared about feeling overlooked at work in spite of their loyalty as an employee. Single clients and friends talked about feeling unnoticed by appropriately aged men in the vicinity of young women […]
