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 […]
I exist within the vibrations of the world. Your vibration is your energy. If all things in life are connected, then your vibration is your ability to attract the things you want and the things that are meant to for you. The Law of Attraction states that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts people […]
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 […]
“A short practice that you do every day is better than a long practice you keep putting off to tomorrow.” Dr. Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist who is known for her work in the field of ‘science help’—popular explication of scientific research—as it relates to achieving personal goals despite inner conflict. She’s studied the […]
Oprah Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes on Sunday and delivered a moving speech that brought men and women in the audience to their feet. Below is a full transcript of Winfrey’s acceptance speech. In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of […]
This is an excerpt of an NPR interview with Geena Davis interviewed by Jacki Lyden. LYDEN: Maybe you’ve noticed something missing at the movies – like women. I’d like to say hooray for Hollywood, but women make up a minority of movie creators: 7 percent of the directors, 13 percent of the writers, 20 percent […]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about ourselves in 2017 it’s that we are resilient. I feel I can speak for all of us when I say that 2017 tested us, over and over again. But we’ve made it through and can breathe again. We can finally stop carrying the emotional baggage we’ve been dragging […]