When Women Had No Choice, I Had To Give My Baby To Strangers
By Cathryn Vogeley The shame and ache from losing my firstborn to adoption in 1969 nearly destroyed me. At the time, I was an eighteen-year-old nursing student in Pittsburgh PA. […]
By Cathryn Vogeley The shame and ache from losing my firstborn to adoption in 1969 nearly destroyed me. At the time, I was an eighteen-year-old nursing student in Pittsburgh PA. […]
By Lynn F. Forney [TW: violence from an attack, mention of disordered eating.] “Do you think your body saved your life?” I was asked this question on a podcast recently. And, […]
By Mary Beth O’Connor [TW: mention of rape, self-harm, child abuse and drug abuse] Within a week of being born, I was dropped off at a convent for six months. […]
By Edwige Gilbert How old are you pretending to be today? Aging is such a painful subject and experience for many people around the world. We would rather lie or […]
By Taryn Watts The post-pandemic corporate landscape is a new, and in some ways, unrecognizable place. From the Great Resignation to the booming trend of “Quiet Quitting,” employees are expressing their […]
It’s 1969. Fiona, a brilliant, beautiful art student, struggles to find herself as she lives through the dramatic events of her time: sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll, the first […]
If you’re a child of the ’80s and ’90s, you’ll be familiar with the phenomenon that is “Sweet Valley High” – the story starring twin sisters Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. […]
What if you were told from the moment you were born that you were evil? Debut author Victory Witherkeigh creates a thrilling YA story that subverts expectations and finds that […]
Sway to the beat of beauty and poetry in ‘The Musician’ (Dec 13, 2022, Koehler Books) a new YA novel by multi award-winning Brazilian author, Heloisa Prieto. With over 2 […]
By Yana Spencer I moved to the Middle East five years ago, having previously lived and worked on women’s empowerment projects in South-East Asia, Europe, Africa and the Balkans. I […]
By Katarzyna Rybarczyk Human trafficking, an issue affecting mainly women and girls, has been a major problems across the country for generations. Although it is difficult to measure the exact […]
Our human brains are great at thinking. It’s how we problem solve, create, and even connect. But not all thinking is productive. When we get stuck in a pattern of […]
By Susan K. Hamilton I’ll read just about anything, but like most people, I have some genres that I gravitate to and some I don’t. So, when I first turned […]
By Debra Roberts, LCSW There’s an old belief that women shouldn’t bring up topics because they might make others feel uncomfortable. If we follow that philosophy, we are more worried […]
By Marisa Cleveland Back in July of 2020, I created a post on Instagram that read, “I have found that balance is the archnemesis of creativity. If you want to […]