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Women at Work: Trends Around the World
Barbara Cox, Dr Cox Consulting; Hannah Hoffmann & Shannon J. Rowley Wayne State University In recent decades, women have experienced positive global shifts in economic empowerment and equality in work. Key drivers of these positive shifts include advances in...
Embracing the Power Within: The Rise of Empowering Feminine Shift
Introduction: In the realm of personal growth and self-discovery, there exists a powerful transformation that is taking place in the lives of countless women around the world. This movement, known as the Empowering Feminine Shift, signifies a fundamental change in the...
Job & Career Guide for People With Mental Illness
This article is by Frank Hacket with Barbara Cox as Contributing editor - post on Resume Builder Over 52.9 million Americans live with some form of mental illness throughout the U.S. That figure equates to nearly one in five adults. Mental health conditions can...
How to Get Into A Meditative State
People ask me sometimes about meditative states. Or more accurately, what leads to meditative states. Well, this week's post will answer that question for you! So read more to learn about meditative states and how they come about! Meditative States Can Be Simple I...
Muscle Relaxation & Managing Stress
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR): One technique for managing stress Progressive muscle relaxation is a systematic technique for managing stress. In the 1930's Dr. Edmund Jacobson discovered that tensing and releasing various muscle groups throughout the body...
The Goodness of Anger
Robert Frost is quoted as saying, “The only way out is through.” This is often used in reference to difficult times, but it is true for difficult emotions, too. Things like anger, sadness, and even envy are tough emotions to experience. They don’t feel pleasant,...
Ditch Feeling Disempowered. Embrace Your Power!
Originally published in San Diego Woman Magazine, Spring 2019 (page 30). Did you know that feeling disempowered is just the flipside of the coin of feeling empowered? If you never felt disempowered, you would not know or understand what empowered felt like. One...
What’s the difference between a gut hunch and fear?
The other day I was discussing intuition with a friend and we started talking about a particularly interesting question – how do you know when it’s a gut hunch and not just fear talking? Said another way, if you’re feeling a sense of fear and you’re not sure if your...
Finding Your Intuition
in·tu·i·tion int(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n/ noun the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. - Google search, Aug 2 2016 According...
Women and Work – Are You In the Center of Your Universe?
Recently, I had an interesting experience that made me pause and reflect on something important to me. I was meeting a friend for coffee and we started discussing my book proposal about women, work, and the balance of relationships. After listening to me describe my...
Loss in Life – Part II
Like I said in my last blog, I’m going to spend some time talking about grief and loss. Not directly related to a death per se, but more related to life transitions and people moving on in life. One aspect of grief is to honor your feelings. This is something I’m...
Loss in Life?
These next few blog posts will be a little different than normal. I’m going to be sharing my process with you because I’m going through major, multiple losses in my life right now and I get the feeling if I share my process this will help you, too. In this series of...