Green with envy? Last night, I watched the newly released movie Snow White and the Huntsman. I loved it! I especially liked Charlize Theron's performance of the envious wicked Queen Ravenna. Ironically, I felt more sympathy (and empathy) for Queen Ravenna, than I felt toward Snow White. Charlize Theron truly embodied Ravenna's pain and fear of vulnerability, insecurity, anger, sorrow, competition, jealousy (and most of all), the envy that all humans experience and feel within ... VIEW POST
Part 1: The Snow White Syndrome
What Makes a “Good Mom?”
Feeling "mom guilt?" A few weeks ago, I gave a Relief Society lesson in another ward. As a counselor in my stake Relief Society presidency, a lot of my calling involves speaking (and listening) to the sisters. After my lesson, a woman took me aside and voiced her pain (no…her anguish) regarding the unrighteous choices her teenage and adult children were making. As active Church members, she and her husband tried to do all the “right things” in raising their kids. But they ... VIEW POST
How Do You Define "Niceness?"
Sugar and spice and everything nice? Growing up as a "Baby-Boomer" in the United States, I often heard the saying: Girls are sugar and spice and everything nice. Boys are snakes, and snails, and puppy-dog tails. Obviously, there was a strong expectation in American culture that girls and women should always be nice. Today, the "be nice mantra" has morphed into "Be kind," and everyone is expected to follow it. In my last post, I revealed my self-defeating mindsets in my associations ... VIEW POST
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