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Take a Break and Enjoy the Holiday Season

It seems our lives become busier than ever during the holiday season. We stress over the Christmas parties we’re hosting or invited to frantically shop for last-minute gifts in over-crowded stores, and rush to attend numerous events. According to an American Psychological Association poll, nearly a quarter of Americans say they feel extreme stress when […]

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Kristin Andress

In The Spirit of Love and Goodness

Gifted storyteller and Leading Women co-author Kristin Andress invites you to enter an allegorical world to discover yourself in the characters that she portrays in her new book, Be Good for Goodness Sake. She and Dr. Nancy reminisce about childhood and small town neighborhoods that still exist today – where people’s kindness and support for

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Making Humbug Holidays Happy

The media sets us up for disappointment during the holidays. If we don’t find ourselves in the midst of today’s version of Norman Rockwell images of a happy family and friends enjoying the festivities, we have somehow failed in our pursuit of successful living. Yet often there just isn’t enough family to go around. When

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Gift to Paris in Support of Freedom

When the people of Paris were attacked on November 13, the world mourned and reached out to them. Messages poured in to support them in both their loss and their determination to maintain their free society in spite of terrorist threat. We the people of the United States are reaching out, too. For the past

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Women’s Health and Relationships

It has long been debated whether or not getting married to live “happily ever after” is good for you. Studies are proving it has no positive impact…on women’s health, that is. Men, on the other hand, seem to receive significant benefits from long term relationships or wedded bliss. Does Marriage Bring Better Health? Four years

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Leading Women Co-Author Writes on “Day Of The Girl Child”

Leading Woman co-author Rebecca Tinsley recently wrote in the Huffington Post about Mary, a ten-year-old girl in northern Uganda who was not aware the International Day of the Girl Child was October 11. Mary was not celebrating, she was in fact was being assaulted by a man who held her against her will for three

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The Imperfect Caregiver Deals With Dysphagia | A Diagnosis that Is Hard to Swallow

Bobbi Carducci was an in-home caregiver for her mentally and physically ill father-in-law for seven years. Issues they coped with included dysphagia, schizophrenia, age-related dementia, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, C.O.P.D. and various infections that popped up like weeds in the summer. She describes what she did as creative problem solving on the run and hopes

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Stories From Women How I Learned to Love Myself Stories

WOW! We received such wonderful and inspiring stories from our Facebook contest “How I Learned To Love Myself.” Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with WomenSpeak. Our judges selected the first five below to each receive a $100 VISA Gift Card. We know that EVERY single one is a winner, so we have

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