Monthly Archives: October, 2007

When I Needed Them the Most

Hi Demian, Thank you for the work you do. Over the course of 2 years three key relationships with women in my life have been destroyed because they behaved in a way that I would have thought impossible at one time. It began with a colleague. She and I worked together for a number of [...]

National Women’s Hall of Fame

All all girls like this, or even most girls, as in mean, catty, backstabbing, petty, etc? Um…no. And neither are women. Here’s a wonderful place to peruse, in case, you need some evidence that we’re not all “mean girls” or “desperate housewives”. National Women’s Hall of Fame And these women inducted into this Hall of [...]

Video: Evolution

I posted a link to this video before, but didn’t have the URL to embed it in the post. I think it’s a really powerful video, so since I just found the URL, I’m posting it again. Again, courtesy of Dove, Campaign for Real Beauty

Parental influence

An article about relational aggression starting very early in some girls. The part of the article that really jumped out at me was this: Other research at BYU has shown that physically and relationally aggressive children are more likely to have parents who discipline with psychological control and manipulation, withdrawing love, avoiding eye contact and [...]

Acting Like It Didn’t Happen

One characteristic of relational aggression is acting like something didn’t happen, whether it was a snub, a comment, an entire weekend of alienating someone, a general unkind attitude when around others, but suddenly nice when you’re alone. It can happen with one person or a whole group can join in, intensifying your feeling that you [...]