For Women Only

This is a somewhat “train of thought” post. Pardon me if it doesn’t seem to have any real direction or a concrete point. I guess not everything has to have these things. : ) Vulnerability is such a hard concept for people to understand for many people and this is why I believe that is [...]

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This is the second part of 7 steps to developing womanly confidence; if you didn’t read the first part, read it here. In the first part of this post, I was talking about developing self-confidence as a feedback loop, at least the way it has functioned in my own life and other self-confident women that I [...]

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I don’t completely agree with the idea that self-confidence is entirely internal. I truly believe that it is a actually mix of internal and external forces. However, the foundation of self-confidence does result from an internal decision to be confident. I actually visualize self-confidence as a feedback loop with internal and external inputs, with some [...]

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I recently participated in a discussion about slut-shaming. The idea is that society has a limited set of rules for how women should behave and express themselves sexually; women who don’t follow those standards are shunned and considered less than. While I believe that to be true, I don’t believe that this pressure to conform [...]

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There was an interesting discussion going on in my Facebook feed this past weekend. Someone asked: “Why is it that the burden of all life’s problems lie with women? Men live in a vacuum of carefree-ism while women continue to get the main blame.” To which someone (a woman) wittily replied: “Don’t accept the blame.” [...]

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