Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on October 30, 2011 · 2 Comments
Your thoughts create your life. – Louise L. Hay Louise L. Hay recently celebrated her 85th birthday with 400 friends and colleagues. She survived childhood rape and incest; child abuse, neglect and abandonment; teenage pregnancy; dating violence; and cervical cancer. She was a high-fashion model who married prosperous English businessman Andrew Hay and met royalty and dined at the White … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on October 29, 2011 · 3 Comments
Christine McFadden, DVM It was just to destroy me. – Dr. Christine McFadden She went out for a morning walk with her best friend, Amy Velasquez, and came home to find all four of her children brutally murdered. How do you recover from this devastating loss? Dr. Christine McFadden is a veterinarian in Merced, CA. She founded the thriving Valley … Read more
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If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place! – Sally Field Sally Field seems to perpetually be one of the first celebrities who shows up to prevent domestic violence. She doesn’t, however, say much about her own experiences. She was one of 100 celebrities in … Read more
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I have known what it is to live a lie ~ to want so badly to keep a relationship that I made myself invisible. . . I would like to spare the pain of every woman who fears that she can have love only if she erases her needs and makes herself small. – Robin … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on October 25, 2011 · 1 Comment
You can recognize enlightenment because it always tastes of freedom. – Martha Nibley Beck, Ph.D. Martha Nibley Beck, Ph.D. is a frequent Oprah contributor and has written several books. Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith is a memoir about the ritualistic sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on October 22, 2011 · 1 Comment
Use your smile to change the world, don’t let the world change your smile! – Robin Simone Givens “Amazing Grace” is the theme of Robin Given’s compelling memoir, Grace Will Lead Me Home. Her maternal grandmother, Grace Turner Newby Scott, was amazing grace personified and a true phenomenal woman. She had deep faith and strength of … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on October 14, 2011 · 2 Comments
Did you know that the lack of love can alter brain development? The brain scan on the left is of a child nurtured in a healthy environment. The brain scan on the right is of a severely neglected child who had a variation of total global neglect (similar to Dani’s story ~ see below). Anderson Cooper: Can a lack of love … Read more
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There is a little bit of Precious in all of us. – Lee Daniels What do you do when your dreams of becoming a Hollywood filmmaker are dashed upon the rocks and even your own mother thinks you’d be more successful if you were more like Tyler Perry? If you are Lee Daniels, … Read more
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Joanne [Kathleen] Rowling is 46 years old today. She is a survivor of domestic violence and a champion for single mothers. She fled her abusive husband in Porto, Portugal in 1993 and went on the dole (welfare in Great Britain). She wrote her first Harry Potter and plotted the series while living in a tenement apartment in … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on July 25, 2011 · 3 Comments
Dysfunctional families love to have their black sheep ~ the scapegoat ~ someone who is sacrificed to the wolf to protect the flock from its own internal shizza. Oprah was on last week, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I had the television on so I wouldn’t miss the latest news about the debt crisis. … Read more
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