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Three new booklets on advancing women

I have decided to break my upcoming women’s book (formerly called Man’s Guide to Ultimate Power) to into 3 smaller (100 page) booklet. This way they are easier to read and access. Here are the tentative titles. Please let me know what you think. 1. Level the Playing Field- 20 ways to advance women at work and in

Mindfulness Made Easy – Practice #2 Body Scan

Here is the second of my 50 Mindful Practices. My book is being published so in the meantime I will blog one of these each week or so. Please sign up on my website if you want to get them automatically in your email box. I welcome your feedback and please pass along to your friends! MINDFULNESS MADE EASY – 50

Mindfulness Made Easy – Practice #1 Breathe

Here is the first of my 50 Mindful Practices. The manuscript of my upcoming book is off at the editors as of today! I plan to blog one of these each week, so sign up on my website if you want to get them automatically in your email box. I welcome your feedback and please pass along to your friends!

How can academic women help other woman with gender issues?

I know I am supposed to support the Gender Studies department at UBC but I find it impossible to engage when the upcoming topics is: “Go Figure! Public Pedagogies, Invisible Impairments and the Performative Paradoxes of Visibility as Veracity.” This is part of the reason why I write in plain language for women. So

Mindful Woman Project Insight #2

Mindful Woman Project #1

I have been meditating regularly and also reading a few Pema Chodron books. In order to help me remember the insights that emerge, I have been doing little sketches. Here is the first one. I plan to post one every so often. I hope you like them.

A great book on finding yourself as a woman

I strongly recommend this book. I will blog excerpts when I get a chance! It was published by Gotham in 2003.

The mother and daughter silent scream

I have often wondered (as the mother of two teen daughters) why the mother-daughter relationship is so tense and emotional. I think I am the cause of the trouble since I am writing two books on how we hold women back. But then I realized I was doing the right thing by being (brutally)

A great poem by Rumi

The Silk Worm, by Rumi I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, “I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be

New years wish of loving kindness

Here is a beautiful wish I just received from my friend Helen Waldstein Wilkes: “May your audience grow, your ideas take root, your family thrive and bring you all the support that enables you to give to others.” Wow. Thank you!