As we wind the month of March down, the time to celebrate women continues. Dare I write this? I was a young woman in the 1970s and 80s. While an exhilarating and powerful time, the transitional nature of those decades presented some serious conundrums for women. At twenty-something back then we women libbers wanted to … Read More
Entrepreneurism & Women in Business
Meet the woman who invented the sports bra
Back in 1977, Lisa Lindahl uprooted an industry with her Jogbra By Abbey Gingras via Dawn Patrol An amateur runner, Lisa Lindahl, was sick and tired of being uncomfortable while exercising. Bouncing boobs hurt. So she created the Jogbra, launching a $7 billion-per-year industry and knocking down barriers for women athletes around the world. Last week, … Read More
Once Upon A Fraud
My mother, in her wisdom, would intone: “Horses sweat, men perspire, women glow.” Give me a bathing suit and point me towards the ocean surf. No boards, please. That was, and still is, my idea of being “active.” But in my mid-twenties, living in Vermont, there was no ocean nearby. I started jogging and found … Read More
From the Journals of…
Insights, quotes and wisdom notes from my travels, jotted down at those times and in those places follow, rather higgeldy-piggeldy and not in any organized order: PERFECTION IS ILLUSION & DELUSION; BUT WE CAN STRIVE FOR WHOLENESS. Ritual is setting intention “The Priest/Priestess is the midwife of Grace” ~ Matthew Fox We are the imaginal cells … Read More
A Practice or a Habit?
So here I have been outlining how to engage in the Practice of True Beauty. And why. But have you ever wondered what the differences are between a “practice” and a “habit”? A habit is a routine. While it may have begun with intention, it no longer needs thought behind it — it is part … Read More