Jenny Holzer is an American neo-conceptual artist who belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects. Her contemporaries include Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth, and Louise Lawler. The public dimension is integral to […]
Why does failure stick in our minds so much longer than success? Why do we get stuck in the negative mind-frame so much more easily than the positive? Seriously, how come when something good happens to us we only get a momentary high then move on? Yet when something negative happens we can’t let it […]
Gina Lake is a spiritual teacher and the author of over twenty books about awakening to one’s true nature. She is also a gifted intuitive and channel with a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and over twenty-five years’ experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. This excerpt from her book Radical Happiness: A Guide to […]
Dear Betsy; You are sensitive to your own feelings; you indulge yourself in feelings which are always and exhaustingly about your reactions to people and events. You haven’t the faintest idea about other people’s feelings – how you affect them. You invent complications, you analyse without reason or need very simple occurrences, and you analyse […]
Bobbi Brown is a professional makeup artist and the founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. Along with creating her own line, Brown has written eight books about makeup and beauty along with the Contributing Beauty & Lifestyle Editor of Health magazine Before she was known as a household name, however, Bobbi Brown was just another student […]
Describing Taryn Toomey in one succinct definition is almost as impossible as describing her increasingly popular yoga/cardio spiritual awakening class aptly named The Class. If you haven’t heard of it (or taken one by now) The Class is a workout in which both your body and your mind experience such an awakening (dare I say […]
You’ve seen Liz Plank before. If you watch the news, you’ve seen her as a correspondent, representative or expert speaking on behalf of women across the nation. If you don’t watch the news, you’ve seen her on Divided States of Women. The journalist, producer and political correspondent at Vox is now the host of the new show […]
You know Yayoi Kusama, you just don’t realize it. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto City, Japan, Kusama dreamed of being an artist since the day she painted flowers in a sketchpad, the same sketchpad her mother would tear up and tell her to stop drawing in. Born to a traditional Japanese family, she was expected […]