Author: Pam Stewart
The Veil of Abuse and The White Elephant In The Room Several months ago, I was caught in the midst of a terrible family dynamic. At the time, I quickly realized that the dynamics were not about personality conflicts or disagreements between those involved. I quickly saw through the veil of emotional outrage and public displays…
Trader Joe’s Made Me Cry Have you ever had a moment in your life that you felt as if you were on auto-pilot? I had such a week last week. I was chugging along doing a million things at once while juggling some difficult family/friend issues. As many of you know, I am usually a…
Beautiful Body Types (This article appeared in the December, 2010 issue of A Healthy You.) Almost all of us have a distorted image of our body, often due to the importance our culture places on outward appearance and the onslaught of media images of airbrushed models and celebrities. On a daily basis, we talk to…
New Year, New You A lot of people begin the New Year by making resolutions. We’ve all been there.We take a vow to lose weight, exercise more or spend more time with our family. We start the year with great intentions, but then we quickly relapse into old habits. Why is it so hard to…
Racial Equality, Justice, and Respect Respect is earned. It is not a Right. Racial equality is born from Respect. When we Respect each individual, there is, by default, Racial Equality. Racial Equality is not achieved from handouts “given” by politicians. We, as a society, don’t give athletes extra points or any advantage because of his/her…
Spring Cleaning People like “stuff”. We tend to hold onto it year after year. We save and stock up on things that we don’t know what to do with anymore. Maybe we keep things because they hold precious memories of days gone by, or they remind us of our parents, grandparents, past loves or childhood….