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Transcendental Meditation Wasn’t What I Expected
When I was 19, a woman in my circle of friends learned the Transcendental Meditation technique. She loved it and was immediately consumed with the desire to tell us all about it and get us
Let Your Love Flow
Is it because I’m a woman or just something peculiar to me that relationships seem so vitally important? Health—great; career—fine; family—doing well. But how I’m getting on with everyone—especially the quality of my most intimate
New Year, Clean Slate
One glorious winter in the 1960s, a record-breaking snowstorm hovered over the Midwest for an entire week. To the delight of every child, school was closed as snow fell continuously for five days. I remember
The Couch Potato Health Plan
To be honest, I really don’t like to exercise. I like the way I feel after and how it shapes my body, but exercising for me is a chore, not fun. And I’m not real
If I Only Had a Brain
I used to sometimes be like the scarecrow in Oz, lamenting “If I only had a brain.” The joke about forgetting your head if it weren’t attached didn’t seem so funny. I wondered if, for
Averting Escalation: A New Paradigm for Law Enforcement
In 1905, Lola Baldwin had a job in Portland Oregon with a primary focus of social work—protecting young women working at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. In 1908, due to her success in this
Creativity and Consciousness: An Interview with Author Linda Egenes
Linda Egenes is the author of more than 500 articles and six books, and with Kumuda Reddy, M.D., she has co-authored three books on preventive health care, including Super Healthy Kids and For a Blissful
Shared Housing for Women – Why Now?
I met Karen Venable, CEO and Founder of Roommates4Boomers, several years ago at a convention. Roommates4Boomers is a national website that matches baby-boomer generation women who want to share housing. I thought Karen’s idea was
Creating Favorable Conditions in Orlando
In October, just before Hurricane Matthew threatened Orlando, Florida, the organizers of the annual Magnet conference—the most prestigious and highly attended nursing conference in the USA—invited us to speak on the benefits of the TM
Promila Bahadur: Empowering Girls and Women through Computer Literacy
When Promila Bahadur was a child growing up in Lucknow, India, she learned at an early age to help those less fortunate. “One time a servant came to me and asked me for food,” she