Hand Picks Up Fork creator, Jennie says: 'I love Geneen Roth, but didn’t expect to like this book. I’m fortunate that I was never significantly overweight. I’m not someone who has gained and lost hundreds of pounds. Technically, my weight has always fallen within a “normal” range. But in the words of Geneen Roth: “I have experienced the anguish of revolving my life around food.” In the end, I found so much insight within its pages that I struggled to narrow down a massive list of my … [Read more...]
Want to Be a Change Maker?
January 18, 2013 by
Get the Tools to be a Changemaker in Your Community Every day people are taking small steps to create big change in communities all over the country. Care2 has partnered with TakePart and the film Promised Land to offer you even more resources for making a difference in your own community. From the director of Good Will Hunting and starring Matt Damon and Frances McDormand, Promised Land explores America at the crossroads where big business and the strength of small-town community … [Read more...]
Awakening to Self – WOMEN in RECOVERY
January 13, 2013 by
The Awakening A time comes in your life when you finally get it (when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity), a moment when you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out … "ENOUGH!" Enough blaming, crying, fighting, struggling to hold on. Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your Awakening. You finally realize it’s time to stop hoping and waiting for … [Read more...]
The Woman Within® 2013 Weekends, Australia/South Africa – Register Today!
December 10, 2012 by
The Woman Within® Training provides a safe and nurturing environment for you to explore how your life could be different and to reaffirm your wholeness as a woman. Since 1988, thousands of women from more than 20 countries have chosen to experience this powerful transformational weekend. About Us Woman Within International is a not-for-profit organization that offers educational opportunities for women to discover the power of who they are and encourages women to communicate this in their … [Read more...]
World Pulse, Ending Violence Against Women Campaign Update
September 20, 2012 by
The Power of Your Stories "While there is breath in this body I will speak the truth." Aoife | Ireland It has been two weeks since we announced our Ending Violence Against Women Digital Action Campaign, and we have already received over 240 community submissions from all over the world. From a witness to the horrors of acid violence in Bangladesh, to a South African man determined to redefine masculinity and address the root causes of violence, to a journalist grappling … [Read more...]
YEMEN: Women die as violence impedes antenatal care in Abyan
August 25, 2012 by
TAKE ACTION !!! ABYAN, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - In June, after spending 11 months in a makeshift camp for people displaced by violence, 19-year-old Dawlah Muslih, then seven months pregnant, returned to her home in an area of Yemen where safety was supposed to have improved. It was a move her family would come to regret. Two months ago, the government announced that the militant group Ansar al-Sharia had been routed from the southern Abyan Governorate by a large-scale military offensive. … [Read more...]
WOMEN in RECOVERY – Women For Sobriety, Inc.
August 25, 2012 by
We are pleased to share with the Women of our World: Women For Sobriety, Inc. (WFS), and in the spirit of FREE THINKING, has opted to share an alternative PROGRAM for Women, with addiction challenges. The following program is designed for any use, including alcohol addiction; as well as other issues. Women For Sobriety, Inc. (WFS), is a non-profit secular addiction recovery group for alcoholic women. WFS was created by sociologist Jean Kirkpatrick in 1976 as an alternative to twelve-step … [Read more...]
Investing in Women Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders is Smart Economics
August 23, 2012 by
Phnom Penh (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – “Investing in women’s entrepreneurial leadership, and the empowerment of women, is smart economics - which is why women’s empowerment is one of the most important development priorities for the countries of Asia and the Pacific,” said Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), addressing senior Cambodian … [Read more...]
Susana E. de Pereda – WOMAN of ACTION™
August 22, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is excited to Celebrate the Life of this awakened soul, a woman that has walked the walk and is now here to help the Women of our World do the same, Awaken to the truth that YES WE CAN, make a Difference! Her motto in life is: "To Unite Everyone in Our Planet with LOVE" WOMAN of ACTION™ Susana E. de Pereda My Vision, Purpose and Goals in my life is to empower Men and Women Worldwide to become more assertive and aware that we are … [Read more...]
