Hoda Kotb: “You can’t scare me.” (Book Review + More)
Hold on tightly to the things you love and get rid of the things you don’t. – Hoda Kotb Hoda Kotb, Today Show co-host, Dateline correspondent, and breast cancer survivor, has learned lessons that I think will help those of us who are wearing purple. It only takes one person to change your life. – Hoda … Read more
Celebrating the Life of Elizabeth Edwards
You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails. Elizabeth Anania Edwards is being laid to rest today beside her beloved son Wade. I don’t think she ever recovered from his death on April 4, 1996. My friend and colleague Rita Anita Linger, who lives near the Edwards home in North Carolina, has … Read more
Celebrating Survivors: What the Color Purple Can Learn from Pink; A Review of PROMISE ME by Nancy G. Brinker
Breast Cancer Awareness Month (1984) is only three years older than Domestic Violence Awareness Month 1987). So, why is pink the predominant color in October? Nancy G. Brinker. If you think that one small town girl can’t make a difference in the world, I invite you to read Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global … Read more
Fuzzy Math: When Is 200,000 Greater than 1.3 Million?
In October. Advertising Age, the bible of advertisers and marketers in the US, has hundreds of articles about how linking a product to breast cancer awareness will boost sales. Their editors and subscribers are experts at market share. The market share of women who have experienced breast cancer is less than 12%. The market share for women who have … Read more
Impact of Domestic Abuse on Health
Physical abuse is no longer just about bruises and broken bones. Emotional abuse is about more than hurt feelings.
The long-term health impacts of domestic violence (DV) are being characterized as “epidemic” and a “national scourge” by Robert S. Thompson, MD, because DV affects between 25% and 54% of women in their adult lifetimes, and a disproportionate number of these women experienced physical or sexual abuse as a child. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1,200 women are killed (three each day) and 2 million are injured each year from intimate partner violence (IPV). This impacts 15.5 million children.
