How can we Love life, when life seems to inflict pain?

How can we Love life, when life seems to inflict pain? First we have to come to terms with something profound. That being… We are not the story we tell about ourselves. This story is every idea that attempts to determine how our life “should” unfold. It’s a common pattern…

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What Does It Mean to ‘Be A Man’?

Originally published on Time.com on March 2, 2015 By Maria Shriver and Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Maria Shriver is a mother of four, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer, a six-time New York Times best-selling author, and an NBC News Special Anchor covering the shifting roles, emerging power and evolving…

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Vanessa Scott

Vanessa Scott is passionate about young people volunteering as a Youth Dance Director since 2001; teaching hundreds of children, ages 3-25, the gift of praise dance. In 2010 one of her 15 year old students was sold into the Bay Area sex trafficking industry. Although she was eventually located and…

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5 Reasons Shaming Survivors into Reporting Rape Is Counter-Productive

Originally published on Everyday Feminism Magazine on March 2, 2015 by Sian Ferguson and re-published here with their permission. A great number of people believe that reporting rape is the best way to fight rape culture. And I understand why many people would think that way. The logic goes that…

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