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Women’s Vulnerability Brings Secret Strength to Business

Connect4Good, Relationships, Women Helping Women, Your Career / By Maggie Castrey

By Dr. Nancy D. O’Reilly, Psy.D Women will really love this idea: We can actually feel womanly without guilt. Get ready to embrace your feminine vulnerability. Women’s special gifts––relational intelligence, holistic perspective, seeing connections among things, web thinking, admitting mistakes––just may save the world! So says Dr. Birute Regine, a developmental psychologist who received both […]

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What Women Need for Social Profit Activities

Connect4Good, Relationships / By Dr. Nancy

Women Connect4Good conducted an online survey of women’s experiences in social-profit (not-for-profit or community) activities in order to assess the demand and determine content for an online resource. Of the 98 women who responded, nearly all (90%) said they participated actively in social-profit ventures with two-thirds of them filling leadership roles. Nearly 40 percent said

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Feminism's Generation War

Amazing Women Make A Difference, Blog, Feeling Young, Relationships, Women Helping Women / By Maggie Castrey

I’ve heard midlife women fretting recently that younger women today aren’t feminists and that they think all the battles have already been won. Not so, according to a very smart post by Katha Pollitt about Feminism’s Generation War. Pollitt gives a knowledgeable overview and concludes that the grievances among older and younger women come down

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Marriage Benefits Male Health Most

Blog, Relationships, Speak Up / By Maggie Castrey

Research Shows Happy Marriages Are Good for Health, Especially for Men High stress levels were best predictor of divorce. 75% of those who died during sex were in an extramarital affair. Men in good marriages had fewer illnesses than wives did. Wives in bad marriages had more illnesses than husbands did. The notion that marriage

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How To Be A Good Wife (1950s Style)

Blog, Relationships, Speak Up / By Maggie Castrey

Here’s an excerpt from a 1950s high school home economics textbook. If their mothers acted this way, small wonder they’re confused by us millennium women! Do you ever feel guilty because you can’t live up to this fantasy of the “Good Wife”? Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious

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Coping with His Midlife Crisis

Feeling Young, Relationships / By Maggie Castrey

This man in front of you, whom you trusted and relied on all these years, is no longer the same. You yell, scream, reason, cry, argue, debate, plead and finally demand he be who he used to be. It is not going to happen! He is finally going through what many before him went through

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Passive Men and Wild, Wild Women

Blog, Fit and Healthy, Gender issues, Relationships, Speak Up / By Maggie Castrey

Men aren’t born passive. Women aren’t born wild. We just have that effect on each other … too often. When and why does a conversation become one-sided, or dissolve into conflict? How can you turn it around and stay sane? Man’s Attitude At work… the man is often active, articulate, assertive, and usually successful in

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Are You Ready for Marriage?

Blog, Relationships, Speak Up / By Maggie Castrey

Are You Really Ready for Marriage? by Candace Bahr and Ginita Wall, CPA, CFP Marriage is an enormous commitment. Before you take the big plunge, do a quick check to see if there is water in the pool. The following quiz can help you and your beloved assess your readiness for the responsibility of marriage

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Navigate Change

Business Sense, Careers, Conversations, Empowerment, Mental Outlook, Podcasts, Relationships, Women Helping Women, Your Money / By Cathy Evans

What do you want from life? Do you feel powerless to create the life you want? Are you stuck in a relationship, a job or a situation you feel like you didn’t choose? In her new bestseller, Me, Myself, and Why? The Secrets to Navigating Change, Lisa Mininni presents a framework for people to get

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The Power of Empathy

Blog, Relationships / By Dr. Nancy

Sad but true we will all lose someone we love. We may lose a beloved pet or a Grandparent we dearly love. None of us will miss this major life changing event unless of course we ourselves head out sooner than expected. My father recently crossed over. I like to say that because that is

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Women’s Vulnerability Brings Secret Strength to Business

What Women Need for Social Profit Activities

Feminism's Generation War

Marriage Benefits Male Health Most

How To Be A Good Wife (1950s Style)

Coping with His Midlife Crisis

Passive Men and Wild, Wild Women

Are You Ready for Marriage?

Navigate Change

The Power of Empathy

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