I just got my first death threat. I am terrified. It was in response to an article I wrote this week on Toxic Masculinity and how it harms men and relationships. I got a four-paragraph, graphically violent (think men’s genitals) e-mail death threat. Words like “I want to choke you until you die” type of
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“What frightens you of the great unknown – disappointment, being let down, ignored, denied your worth? Whatever you’re afraid of, your feeling isn’t separate from you; it’s your projection; it’s what you expect. You fear failure because you expect failure because you have failed in the past. You fear abandonment because you expect abandonment due
Good news: The WOMEN DELIVER conference is now on in Vancouver. It is an amazing gathering of men and women from around the world who seek gender equality. I am moved to tears from all of the stories of women’s continued oppression AND I am reminded that until we deal with the DEEPEST ROOTS we
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We think that women are advancing, but are they really? We think that women just need to work a bit harder to get those top positions and we just need a few more women in the pipeline in order to balance out the numbers. But this is simply not true. Despite the promises of feminism,
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Here is one of my favorite books of all time: “The Untethered Soul” by Michael Singer. In very easy language he explains that we humans are not just our body and minds but can actually be a “witness” (consciousness) to all that happens. Why is this SO critical? So we step outside our limited and
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This is HUGE. Women have been fighting for thousands of years to have ownership of their own bodies. And in one day, a small handful of men can take this away with a single law. I can’t believe this is 2019! Jessica Valenti wrote a great article on Medium.com entitled “Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Have No Idea
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Here is a letter I wrote for my daughter: 12 things I wish my mother told me about sex. Dear Teen Daughter, When I was a teenager a friend of mine got pregnant. Another got talked into having sex when she did not want to. A third got raped by her boyfriend and a fourth got
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“The fact that women have the intellectual capacity of rocket scientists, the biological capabilities of mothers, the learned and inherent talents of nurturers, and the socially imposed responsibilities of domestic managers, does not mean these pieces will fit neatly together at once.” -Karen Engberg As Mother’s Day approaches, I decided to ask a few mothers
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A friend of mine just bought my book, “Motherhood is Madness” and read it in two days (a record time!). She then bought 10 copies for her friends and her 3 daughters. And then she asked for the Manifesto – which I am posting here. Here are her words: “This completely describes my life with
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