Women Who Survive

New Service Helps Women Authors Publish Their Inspiring Stories

Our good friend Lois W. Stern has started a new service that is helping women authors share their motivating stories. Tales2Inspire.com invites women to enter their motivational story in a contest. Selected stories will appear in a future issue of Tales2Inspire™ anthology collections. Authors get their photo and quote on the back cover of the […]

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Feminist Halloween Costumes to Inspire Girls and Women

What Does a Princess Do? My granddaughter was VERY MUCH into princess dress ups when she was tiny, and one day I asked her what princesses do. “Oh,” she said ecstatically, “They wear beautiful gowns and hair.” As she spoke her hands glided down over the contours of a dress, smoothed her hair, touched the

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Celebrate Your Anniversaries Both Happy and Sad

Anniversary dates should be recognized and remembered. I first learned about the importance of anniversary dates, of course, when I was married. But not until I began doing crisis response work did I come to understand the importance of anniversaries of tragic events in people’s lives. They are significant for other reasons many of us

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How to Rebuild Your Strength and Recover After A Crisis

Well-meaning people will say, “Pull yourself together,”  but how exactly can you do that when you feel shattered and exhausted by what you’ve been through? I’ve spent a lot of time helping people cope with the aftermath of crisis and devastating trauma, and I know it isn’t easy. But I have observed some common threads

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Protect Yourself from Abuse

Domestic violence is a widespread problem that occurs among all ages, genders, races, educational backgrounds, and socioeconomic groups. What is the Extent of a Domestic Abuse Problem? Nearly 2 million women are battered annually and more likely than men to be murdered as the result of domestic violence. Approximately 2 million children annually are seriously

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