When you were young, did you dream of being an Olympian speed skater, a famous writer, an earth mother with plump babies? Sometimes being happy is about reconnecting with who you were – not necessarily achieving grandiose goals. Here, Shirley Valentine kicks off several ways to remember who you are…and the empowering life coach Susan Liddy [...]
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Whether you weigh 225 or 105 pounds, increasing low self-esteem can be an uphill battle! But, overweight women can encounter a whole different set of issues — obstacles their lighter counterparts aren’t even aware of. One of my favorite women here on See Jane Soar is Queen Latifah, who repeatedly said she wasn’t on the Jenny Craig [...] The life lesson: successful women fail more than unsuccessful women — so we have to be willing to fail and bounce back! The successful woman: Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. “The willingness to win OR lose moves us out of an adversarial relationship to life and into a powerful kind of openness,” writes Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen in Kitchen Table Wisdom: [...] The life lesson: certain strategies improve your chances for life success! The successful woman: Alanis Morissette. Morissette knows what she wants out of life – which means she’s on her way to getting it. “Down the road I would love to have a full-blown family, but I am nowhere near ready to be married,” she said in Chatelaine, April [...] The life lesson: to build self-confidence, stop acting the way you “should.” The successful woman: Queen Latifah, who is a perfect example of how to see Jane soar! “I don’t act the way society dictates that a woman ’should,’ writes Queen Latifah in Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman. “I am not dainty. I do not [...] The life lesson: you can live lavishly no matter how little money you earn or how tired, ill, or just plain crazy you feel. The woman who wasn’t well-behaved: Wangari Maathai. How do we know Maathai wasn’t well-behaved? Listen to how her ex-husband describes her: “…too educated, too strong, too successful, too stubborn, and too hard to control,” he said. You [...] The life lesson: the better care you take of your breast health, the better equipped you’ll be to face breast cancer. The successful woman: Renée Zellweger. “[Every woman] should put breast exams on a list of things you deserve to do,” says the Academy award-winning actress Zellweger. “You deserve to have a mammogram every year after a certain stage of life.” Here’s [...] |
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