Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Laura Fenamore. What’s more painful than chronic physical pain? The pain that lives inside of us, that’s what. Can you imagine being 100 pounds overweight and living with all of the shame that goes along with that? Imagine the inability to buy a dress or the fear that goes with flying on an airplane [...]
A new documentary will debut at the Sundance Film Festival about rape and the military.
What do we really want for our girls? We want them to experience a world that welcomes their dreams, their agendas, and their unique gifts. That world does not yet exist.
By: Mia Redrick. We’ll start with the good news. The United States is tied for number 1 with Norway for equal division of household chores between men and women. According to the Journal of Marriage and Family, men contribute 46% of the United State’s household chores. The bad news is that housework never ends. Here’s [...]
By: By Erik Fisher, PhD, AKA Dr E… Kudos to the British and their Advertising Standards Agency. Recently they banned make-up ads from Uber-star Julia Roberts and Uber-model Christy Turlington due to excessive use of digital manipulation. The claim was that this was basically false advertising for the product they were pitching with their photos. [...]
By: Mia Redrick. Being a mom is the hardest job in the world. We wear so many hats and have so many responsibilities that are not always seen by the naked eye. We are often overwhelmed and numb to outside stimuli. At this point, not only are we hurting ourselves, but we’re doing a disservice [...]
By: Jenn Pedde. Technology has been one of the fastest growing industries for at least two decades, but women are still woefully underrepresented among the ranks of tech workers and managers. Part of the reason that there are so few women working in tech fields begins in high school and college. Women are not entering [...]
By: Anna M. Aquino. We all remember the awkward moments in childhood when our parents tried to set us down and give us the dreaded conversation about the ‘birds and the bees.’ Usually the talk was as if someone was dragging their fingernails over the chalk board for both parties in the conversation. It’s known [...]
By: Judith J. Wurtman, PhD. Dieters face situations that threaten their will power or even their ability to get the foods they are supposed to be eating. Catered business lunches, Sunday dinners at a relative’s home, birthday parties, lack of time to go to the supermarket: These are only a handful of the obstacles that [...]
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. As a psychotherapist, I treat many kinds of people who have suffered from abuse. The worst kind is sexual abuse. It is a terrible crime and has serious consequences. It causes depression, anxiety, loss of self-esteem and usually scars the girl or woman for the rest of her life. [...]
