12 Principles of Healing from Trauma and Codependency
1. Healing Takes Time. Let’s face it, it took awhile for you to get where you are. Likewise your recovery will also take time. Give yourself the gift of allowing this process of self-parenting to...
View Article12 Steps for Successful Parenting for Families Affected by Addiction
Step 1 Admit powerlessness over your ability to protect you children from pain and become willing to surrender to your love and not your control. Step 2 Find hope in the belief that recovery is...
View ArticleThe Power of Resilience
When tragedy strikes with the death of a loved one, a serious illness or a job loss, some people fall apart, while others adapt to such life-changing events more easily. Being resilient is what makes...
View ArticleInvitation to share your stories and ask questions about women, strength and...
Dear Friends, I am revising Dancing Backwards in High Heels: Women and Resilience due 3/13/2012 and I’d like your input. Please post stories you’d like to share about women and how they use their...
View ArticleChristmas and Perfume
If ever there was a season celebrating resilience it is the Christmas Season. As women, this season represents a virtual treasure trove of elements around which we build our resilience, because our...
View ArticleBinge Drinking – Taking Away Your Own Power
By Patricia O’Gorman, Ph.D. Author of The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (publication date 3/5/13) pre-order available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble Most women read...
View ArticleHearing Our Own Voice – When Faced With Being Blamed for Violence We’ve...
Hearing Our Own Voice – When Faced With Being Blamed for Violence We’ve Experienced By Patricia O’Gorman, PhD author of The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (publication date...
View ArticleWarrior Women Give Themselves a Voice – A Lesson We Can All Learn
By Patricia O’Gorman, Ph.D. Author of The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (Publication date 3.5.13) As women we know that within us is a warrior. We may joke about being...
View ArticleStepping Into Our Power – Nothing Can Stop Me Now
For all of us, our private road to personal power has been strewn with awful events that challenged us, boulders that have unexpectedly tumbled down about us, detours signs we saw at the last minute,...
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