Diane DeBella and I Am Subject: Women sharing their stories to become “subjects” in the 21st century
One of the messages I have consistently shared since putting my own story out into the world four years ago is that by sharing our truths, we can heal ourselves and help others. That is why I started the Healing Stories Project. Yesterday afternoon I was lucky enough to attend an extremely moving storytelling..
Discover Your Healing Story Launches on the Daily OM! I am excited to be partnering with the Daily OM–an online community that nurtures mind, body and spirit by offering daily inspiration, on-line courses, discussions, music, and more–to offer my newly developed on-line writing course Discover Your Healing Story. Women today often live their lives governed by “shoulds” that they have..
Women today often live their lives governed by “shoulds” that they have never thought to question. It can be painful to realize that what we have always considered to be absolute truths are nothing more than socially constructed norms—hoops we are taught to jump through. When we begin to question those truths (whether we..
In my work with girls and women, I understand the power that sharing our stories can have, especially when women find the courage to tell their truths and share their life lessons with the girls coming up behind them. I firmly believe that we have an obligation to ensure that today’s girls and young women..
She didn’t write it. (But if it’s clear she did the deed. . .) She wrote it, but she shouldn’t have. (It’s political, sexual, masculine, feminist.) She wrote it, but look what she wrote about. (The bedroom, the kitchen, her family. Other women!) She wrote it, but she wrote only one of it. (“Jane Eyre. Poor..