PaulaW

Female | 40 years old | USA | Last updated 16/1/2010 6:50 uur
My theme for 2010 is authenticity (physical, emotional and spiritual). My most constant passion in life, it appears, is learning. I like to learn something new everyday. I strive for balance in my physical, emotional and spiritual life. I have a two year old son, a six year old dog and 38 year old husband. I love them equally (smiles). For fun, I enjoy performing as a comedian at local comedy clubs (my father is a comedian). The ODE issue on laugher (2008) was fabulous. Nutrition and Exercise are so deeply entrenched in my life that I don't even have to think about them. I am currently writing a book about the importance of maintaining balance in your life and finding your personal harmony (think body, mind and soul meets Rumi). I have a small, but successful event planning business, I plan weddings, bar mitzvahs, corporate retreats. My greatest pride today is a chariy organization I have recently founded (due in part to my recent exposure to a book called "Half the Sky" and to ODE magazine). Save Our Sisters is a non profit, women to women group - Through awareness, inspiration and compassion we promote urgent social change for women all over the world. http://www.saveoursisters.com I discovered ODE three months ago, I ordered the last two years past issues and I can NOT imagine what I'll do when I'm caught up.
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Since the beginning of time men have ruled the world. Women, to be sure, have carried their fair share of the load, some would argue more than their fair share (with child birth alone!). Yet it has not been until the last few hundred years that women really became empowered and able to impact real change in the world. Plato, Newton, Galileo, Edison, Einstein; before this empowerment, these are the names that we thought of in terms of shaping the world.

Consider all that we have accomplished, as a society, in the fields of science, education, medicine, literature, art, and communications. All of these things (largely, and until recently) have been invented, created and established by men. To me, this means that all we have done as a world, since the beginning of time, is little more than half of our full potential!   Lees verder...

Save Our Sisters (SOS) is a non-profit organization that promotes urgent social change for extremely disadvantaged women all over the world. Through activation of small, women-to-women groups, we empower U.S. women with an awareness of vast global injustices to women and girls all over the world.

We inspire SOS members to action, and show them how, by impacting small and seamless changes in their own lives, they have the power to impact women all over the world. We seek to support members in cultivating compassion within their own children and within their cirlce of influence.   Lees verder...