What’s Your Love Language?
It’s Spring. Love is in the air. Oprah’s Lifeclass with Dr. Gary Chapman is on OWN. We all have a love language, and we feel loved when the people in […]
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It’s No More Week: March 17-21, 2014
No more silence. No more violence. Say it. Share it. Show it. NO MORE is an organization which was founded by survivors. These survivors are leveraging their corporate expertise to end […]
Inspiring Change: One Billion Rising on V-Day to No More on St. Pat’s
Five years ago on V-Day, 2009, I launched Navigating Uncharted Waters to inspire change. I hoped to inspire abuse survivors to break down the walls of silence and to shift […]
Inspiration: Self Care and Value
Abuse survivors are conditioned to dance to the narcissistic perpetrator’s tunes. The narcissist’s needs matter. Our needs don’t. Oh, hell to the NO! We can’t function properly if we don’t […]
One Billion Rising: Seattle Celebrates, 2013
Although I’ve been looking forward to the celebration of One Billion Rising for JUSTICE since May, my health isn’t going to permit me to join in Seattle’s celebrations this year. […]
One Billion Rising for JUSTICE: Bravo, Dale Hansen!
You beat a woman, and drag her down a flight of stairs pulling her hair out by the roots; you’re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. – Dale […]
Book Review: Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
Two books have changed the trajectory of my life. Ironically, both were written by Anna Quindlen: Black & Blue and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Actually, Black & Blue changed the trajectory of […]
When Did Comcast’s Customer Service Philosophy Become “F*** You?”
If you own stock in Comcast, you might want to sell. I’m not a financial guru, but I have a phenomenal gift for sensing when a corporate culture has gone […]
One Billion Rising: Our Failure to Protect Dylan Farrow
What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? – Dylan Farrow Social media guru Kathy Gill helped me launch this site five years ago. Over the weekend, she addressed […]
One Billion Rising: Super Bowl Justice
I thought Martin Luther King fixed this already. Seattle is crazy for the Seahawks. I’m crazy for the Super Bowl commercials. This year’s most popular commercials share the themes of […]
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