Lean Whole?

Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In, Women, Work and the Will to Lead created quite a stir as it looked at the ways women are held back and even hold our selves back in the corporate world. As a result, women achieve much lower success in the top ranks of corporations and...

This year….try loving it.

I was at the gym this morning and a man walked up to me and said “I think you have the happiest face of anyone in this gym.  You are always smiling when you work out!” I laughed and said,  “Thanks and that yes, I’m probably one of the few...

Discipline or Punish…what helps a child learn best?

It has been a tough month for the NFL.  There’s the Ray Rice domestic violence case and now charges against Adrian Peterson for child abuse related to his hitting his four year old child with a switch to the point of leaving significant marks on the child. All...

Reject or Embrace?

At a domestic violence conference, the crowd sat engrossed in the keynote speaker’s 30 year story of abuse. Not until she lay in the hospital with practically every bone in her body broken was she finally able to leave him. As she told her story, the disgust towards...