by Deborah Cox | Dec 29, 2016 | Coaching For the Therapist, Mood, parenting, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Women
Leadership (said with a sneer) I hate the word, “Leader.” It’s lost every shred of meaning it once held for me. Leadership once meant authority and concern for the welfare of everyone in its reach. Now it sounds like a fake word with fake facts to support its...
by Deborah Cox | Dec 18, 2016 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Relationships, Relax. You're normal., Write and Heal
My Bodysmith friends and I have been asking ourselves: Do we even want to make resolutions for 2017? Does it make sense to replay the same self-assignments, year after year? The question makes sense if you think about how New Year’s resolutions have evolved over time....
by Deborah Cox | Nov 10, 2016 | child maltreatment, Relationships, Women, Write and Heal
“Don’t sound like such a victim,” said somebody on Facebook yesterday. I talk with so many of you in shock and grief about our presidential election. You feel assaulted. You fear saying how raw and threatening it feels, how sick you are. My throat...
by Deborah Cox | Nov 4, 2016 | Beauty Culture, Becoming More of Your True Self, Coaching For the Therapist, Create Art, Mood, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Women
, Woman-Hate=Mostly Unconscious Fear of Women’s Empowerment. One day, in 1992, I had a panic attack. It came out of nowhere. I got up early and dressed for work, made breakfast and started a load of laundry, turned on the morning news while I finished my hair and my...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 27, 2016 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Relationships
Several years ago, I did a talk for a local GLBT advocacy group. I stood at the front of a large meeting room and talked about discrimination and ignorance, the need for education. A topic I lectured on every week in my classes. But in the middle of my presentation,...
by Deborah Cox | Jun 27, 2016 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, EMDR, Feel Better, Mood, Relationships, Therapy, Write and Heal
I used to fall a lot. On the sidewalk. In my yard. Up a flight of marble stairs. About seven years ago, after a string of bizarre falls where I ended up with scars on my shins and a pulled muscle in my back, I followed the trail of breadcrumbs and made a body-mind...
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