The YIN MIND ________________________________________________________________ It is a culturally propagated influence: simplify and generalize! Why? Because we are cognitively impaired. We are and we have become closed. We seek certainty. Analysis is the method: to know by taking things apart, with our minds or with our hands. One scientific method commends us to isolate and to define. We presume a single path connection of cause and effect. In fact, at the juncture, some will … [Read more...]
AIDS Response, special meeting at CSW 57
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Special event at the Commission on the Status of Women seeks to accelerate zero-tolerance towards gender-based violence through the AIDS response Co-chaires Hon Thokozani Khupe, Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (left) and Hon Julia Duncan-Cassell, Minister of Gender and Development of Liberia at the High Level Consultation Accelerating Zero-Tolerance to Gender based violence through the HIV response. New York City on March 9, 2013. Credit: UNAIDS/M. Taamallah NEW YORK — These … [Read more...]
INSPIRATIONAL WINDOW – Ending Violence for All
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Love Never Fails – WOMEN in RECOVERY
October 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Love is patient It is long-tempered, opposite of "short fused". Love is learning how to put up with others. It has restraint of anger, wrath, temper in all sorts of life situations . Patience is the key factor which is required in order to take a biblical course of action. Lack of patience is evidence of a lack of love. Love thinks of the other person first; lack of patience puts oneself first. Love shown to be giving of one's self, time, interests to another while giving up on … [Read more...]
Real change, lasting solutions empowering women involve engaging men ..
September 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Empowering women through access to family planning means that mothers and infants are healthier, families are more financially stable, and communities are stronger. Although family planning has traditionally been a gender-based issue, it’s not too hard to realize why improving access to women’s health care, especially reproductive health care, is in everyone’s interest. That is why UNFPA has become a strong proponent of engaging males in the family planning process. “Real change and … [Read more...]
Addictions Backfire, Jennifer Kunst, Ph.D. – WOMEN in RECOVERY
September 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Why are addictions so hard to break? There is no single answer to this question, for addiction’s power is multi-layered. We know that there are physical, mental, emotional, social, and even spiritual forces at play. But with each layer of understanding comes a greater opportunity to help those who struggle to free themselves from an attachment that has become destructive. I come to the question as a psychoanalyst, of course, and so I am interested in what lies beneath the surface of … [Read more...]
Walk Away … with Dignity and Self Respect
September 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Take Action ...not Re-Action! Are you still holding onto grudges or being haunted by negative past relationships? Is there an 'ex' who has wronged you in the past and whom you have not forgiven? Do your thoughts ever turn to past relationship hurt, betrayal and jealousy? Are you ever worried that the same patterns will repeat in your current or future relationships? Walk Away ... with Dignity and Self Respect If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. … [Read more...]
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