by Jamie Walters
Is there a deeper purpose and beauty in relationship than what we might have been conditioned to see? Traveling back to ancient times, we may find a clue.
What we may know of Aphrodite-Venus is that she was the Goddess of Love and Beauty. In more recent times this has taken on a kind of greeting-card quality, where love or relationship is the romantic fantasy, all rose-colored lenses, chocolates and flowers. And that’s lovely enough. […]
by Kathy Caprino
Bottom line – “Embracing and loving who I am and what I’ve done is not a fixed state- it’s a long work in progress.”
As many of my friends know, I’ve immersed myself in a 9-year life reinvention, and shifted from a miserable and chronically ill corporate professional to an author, consultant, speaker and entrepreneur who absolutely loves what she does for a living and what she’s focused on, despite the enormous challenges.
It’s been one heck of a ride, with pitfalls, bumps, highs and transformations, that I barely recognize myself from the individual I was 10 years ago. The core essence of me is still there, of course, but there’s been so much shifting and morphing that now I see much more clearly what I truly value and need to have in my life and work and family experience. I “get” myself a lot more deeply than I did before. […]
by Jamie Walters
Many of us have experienced, or are experiencing, a sort of radical rebirth, a reincarnation within this incarnation.
We’re living in uber-transformative times, so perhaps it comes as no surprise that transformation around us happens through transformation within us, even as circumstances seem to conspire to nudge us into that change. […]
“You are not who you were, only older,” Suzanne Braun Levine
I haven’t written a book review for Mothering, yet, since I believe our readers are a widely diverse group of women representing many ages, interests and ideologies. So, when I received How We Love Now, I wasn’t sure what I would do with it, other than read it. […]
by Deborah Swiss
There’s a new breed of activists on the rise. Mothers at mid-life are banding together around the rhetorical question: If we don’t help this planet, who will? It’s a different spin on the imperative to save Mother Earth but both share an urgency to roll up our sleeves and do something. With so many problems across the globe, our first inclination might be to walk away under the weight of the question “Where do I even begin?” […]
by Vivian Diller Ph.D
Although originally used by psychologists to describe a transitional stage in adult development, today the midlife crisis is often associated with the guy in his 40s who finds a young girlfriend and runs off in his new sports car; or the woman, about the same age, who reinvents herself, buys a new wardrobe — and sometimes buys a new face. Is it a myth? An excuse for impulsive, bad behavior and unrealistic transformations? Or is it a reality in need of a new name, given recent changes in contemporary culture? […]
by Valerie Gillies
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach the far horizon? Hal Borland
Here I am, sitting at the computer trying to write something coherent, while inches away my thirteen year old is melting down at the prospect of the first day of school tomorrow. The ostensible issues: backpack size and choice of clothing for the morning. (Truth: nervous beyond belief.) Another, down the hall, is supposed to be packing for a year abroad, but has abandoned a room that could land me with a health code violation, in order to help her friend pack up for school. And, in the room vacated by my eldest daughter are the beginnings of a wedding gown that I should be working on. […]
by Tara Sophia Mohr
I coach brilliant women, lots of them. Dedicated, talented, brilliant women.
Most of the time, they don’t know their brilliance. They are certain they “aren’t ready” to take on that next bigger role. They are more attuned to the ways they aren’t qualified than to the ways that they are. They are waiting for someone to validate, promote or discover them. Sound familiar? […]
by Vivian Diller, Ph.D
by Denise Mooney
On a recent family vacation, I had the unfortunate experience of being asked the inevitable question. To my chagrin, it happened a decade or two sooner than I had expected. Drum roll please. “Is that your grand-daughter?” What?! Are you kidding me?! […]