Category Archives: Cheryl Dellasega
“The Disease to Please”
In talking with a reporter the other day she mentioned that women are often handicapped by the “disease to please,” a term I had never heard before. All too readily, I understood what she was talking about, though: the woman who gives, gives, gives until there’s nothing left for herself. In some ways, a woman [...]
Flip the Script
This week has been a big one for Ophelia activities, including a final celebration ceremony at one middle school program where 25 girls have gathered over the last ten weeks to explore relationship skills that help rather than hurt. These young women spoke about finding friendships they didn’t know were possible, learning alternatives to hurtful [...]
RA and RNs
I started my career in a profession that is uniquely female–nursing. Nowhere was the connectedness of women clearer to me than during those early years in the tense environment of the CCU. So often, we worked as a team, intuitively understanding what was needed from ourselves and each other. Then there were the times that [...]
Girl Drama
This week I watched as some very talented fifth grade girls acted out scenarios that came right from real life. As an observer, it was all too easy to see how relational aggression gets conveyed through a hand on the hip, the flip of one’s hair, a roll of the eyes, oh-so-dramatic sighs, and other [...]
Female Family Feuds
Given that my next book is about RA within families AND given that we just passed through the “kickoff” holiday of Thanksgiving, it seems worth musing about families we are born into and/or sworn into. Some of the bitterest stories I received for my recent book came from women who thought being related should somehow [...]
Recent Comments