When I was little, I invented a way to prevent childhood sexual abuse. Because I was experiencing it. Before you read about my sexual abuse solution, check out these statistics*: Nearly 70% of ALL reported sexual assaults happen to children 17 and under. 1 in 10 children will be sexually abused before age 18. Children […]
Teach Your Children Well (So they don’t become a sexual abuse statistic.)
April is National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, this topic is very important to me. And since one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18 (according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), this issue should […]
Crisis Management 101 (How to be resilient when you or your family experiences a series of unfortunate events.)
Has your family ever been slammed with a whole lot of difficulties, all at once? Just when you think things are getting better—maybe even back to normal—some new problem arrives to knock you to your knees. A few years back, our family experienced a number of negative issues: boom, boom, boom. Cancer diagnosis for my […]
10 Tips for Living a Whole-Hearted Life (As taught by Brene Brown when she was my co-pilot)
At the end of last year as I drove over the river and through the woods to visit my grown daughter, Brene Brown taught me how to live a whole-hearted life. Because my friend Karen Haring—founder and executive director of Libera, Inc.—recommended more than once that I listen to Brown’s 6-cd audio recording of her […]
Exercise Is NOT the Key to Losing Weight (And here’s a ton of research and quotes to prove it.)
For years I felt guilty for not exercising on a regular basis. I’m talking, I felt really guilty. Because I believed exercise was the way to stay fit and trim. But recently I remembered that not one, but two gym-owners, have told me: “90% of the way your body looks is not due to exercise. It’s due […]
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