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The Pandemic, Women, and Leadership
In 2019, prior to the pandemic, of the companies that made up the 2019 Fortune 500 list, 6.6 percent had women CEOs—the highest number ever and a significant increase from 2018, when only 4.8 percent
Six Thousand Maasai Women Learn Transcendental Meditation
Before the onset of colonialism, the East African native population thrived as approximately 100 different sovereign and autonomous nations—with their own languages and cultures, laws and traditions. The creation of the two nations Kenya and
Feeling Depressed? Combat Pandemic Isolation Blues
Before the pandemic swept our society into new rules of behavior, scientific research—including a 2017 review of 40 other studies on public health consequences of isolation—had shown that loneliness can be harmful to mental health.
Isolation Can Cause Hypertension, Especially in Women
Alone much these days? You know you should stay put and guard your health during this pandemic, but Is seclusion challenging your health? Statistics, observation and research during the pandemic indicate that social isolation puts
School Teaching Reimagined in the Year 2020
During the pandemic, teachers have had challenges that their academic training couldn’t have anticipated. Unlike teaching in person, with distance learning teachers have had to work harder to connect with students—to ascertain if they had
How to Do the Right Thing
Most children are raised to be thoughtful adults who will try, in every circumstance, to “do the right thing.” “Just do the right thing!” we tell ourselves when we face a challenging moral or social
Pandemic Front Lines: An Interview of Barbara Twombly RN BSN CWOCN
Barbara is a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in California who received her nursing degree at Russell Sage College and her WOCN Specialty training at Emory University. She
When Teenage Girls Meditate
Parents know that eye-rolling and door slamming are coming when their daughter is approaching her teen years. Sometimes it doesn’t end up being so bad. Sometimes it’s worse than you could have imagined. Who is
Help in Recovery from Disease
Doctors throughout the world know that the process of healing occurs spontaneously from within the human body when our lifestyle choices support the body’s own natural healing mechanisms. We all know from our experience that
Being Your Husband’s Caretaker
My friend and her husband were a happy, productive, generous and successful couple. Then, almost out of the blue, he was diagnosed with a serious illness and she took care of him through the rest