Author: resolutewoman
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What makes you feel fulfilled?
Most women say that, while their husbands and children make them happy, their primary sense of fulfillment comes from being personally satisfied and independent. That’s the conclusion of a Ladies’ Home Journal poll of American women. The poll of 1,000 American women was conducted by Michael J. Berland, president of polling and the research firm…
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May you grow in peace and wisdom
My two college students are getting ready to start classes at the end of August. I was remembering recently how I used to wake them, feed them breakfast and then drive them to Moss Haven Elementary School. Even though we tried our best to round up all the library books and homework the night before…
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Rosa Parks, senior citizen
Rosa Parks is remembered as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” because she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. We talked about her quiet courage in our last blog post, but we also were fascinated to learn about some of the amazing activities of this incredible woman during her…
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Remember Rosa Parks
I just finished listening to the audio book Rosa Parks—A Life by Douglas Brinkley. I knew that Rosa Parks was “the prim, bespectacled, 42-year-old mulatto seamstress” who had refused to give up her seat on the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1945. I knew what Rosa Parks did on that December…
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Are you kind to yourself?
Many of us need to treat ourselves with a little more kindness. According to an article in The New York Times, February 28, 2011, a “new area of psychological research called self-compassion” indicates we would be happier and more optimistic if we treated ourselves better. Research indicates that people who give themselves a break and…
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Are you compassionate toward others?
In her book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Karen Armstrong remembers six kind words that were spoken to her when she was 20 and tells how she frequently has recalled them at particularly bleak moments in her life. Armstrong and a group of leaders from six faith traditions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism—have…
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Are you compassionate toward yourself?
Karen Armstrong, former nun and author of 20 books, thinks the world needs more compassion. When she was awarded the 2008 TED prize, she decided to use her award money to develop a Charter for Compassion and then to join with people worldwide to “put ourselves in the shoes of the other.” Armstrong explains how…
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Can you eat just one potato chip?
If you can stop after eating one chip, you deserve an award for your self-discipline. A study by Harvard University scientists indicates that potato chips headed the list of foods that can be blamed for weight gain, according to an article in the June 23, 2011, Dallas Morning News. “They’re very tasty and they have…
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What’s driving you?
Most of us are familiar with the inner critics we talked about in our last blog post—the perfectionist critic, the do-it-all driver, the fake and fraud critic who tells us we’re not good enough, the pleaser critic who keeps telling us what we need to do so that everyone will like us and the comparer…
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How can you quiet your inner critic?
Almost all of us have an inner critic—or inner critics, says Stacey Sargent, a professional coach and speaker. Who is your inner critic? During a recent webinar sponsored by the Association of Women in Communications, Sargent identified five possibilities. The perfectionist critic, who finds fault in everything you do. The do-it-all driver. This critic is…