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Heather Sobieralski's picture

Through The Eyes Of A Child

One of the best parts about being a parent is getting to see the world through the eyes of a child, again. Life doesn’t get much better then abandoning all inhibitions and being a child with your child. I am my happiest when running through sprinklers with my clothes on, eating ice cream for breakfast and flying around my house in a Batman cape trying to capture The Joker. I delight in the “easy” questions about thunderstorms, bugs and eye color. I have waited years to have these engaging conversations with my children. Watching their minds process and retain information is quite enjoyable and satisfying.

But what about the tough questions?
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Danielle LaPorte's picture

Who Is Your Support Group?

I felt it shelter to speak to you.
- Emily Dickinson

We gather in a group to be witnessed, to be supported, and to be both equalized and elevated in our struggles, gifts and ambitions. Common ground is very fertile ground -- it is, what Emerson calls, “...the common heart of which all sincere conversation is worship.” Where two or more are joined with the same intention, grace intensifies and solutions multiply. Belongingness heals and nourishes with its affirmative recognition that we are not alone. Simultaneously, we are able to experience our unity and our uniqueness.

Who hears you? Whose greatness do you foster in return?

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4 Tips For The Year-Ago Me

When I say Posse, you say Party.... are you feelin' it? A while back our community member Pattie encouraged other ladies to write a letter to their younger selves. This suggestion caught on rather quickly and became a great source of creative inspiration for many Pinkies in our community. A newer community member, Bridget Clark decided to join in on the fun!

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Let Them Love You

It's that time again.. Happy Saturday Posse Party! The author of this post is someone you might of met before on the Magical Eyes Tour. In her video interview, Sheena shared the transformation Magical Eyes gave to her. Welcome back, Sheena LaShay to the Owning Pink stage as she spreads her love just a little bit further.

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Megan Monique Harner's picture

Creating My Marriage, Again and Again

 

What empowers you in your relationship to look beyond our masks and see the light that resides within your partner? How might you let your masks down to live in a space of being vulnerable with the one you love? How would that feel for you? What would it look like or taste like?

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Communication Breakdown: Giving Others Permission to Shine

Using Magical Eyes in our relationships, I have found, is one of the best ways to create magic in our lives.

I moved to Austin, Texas in 2006 from my home, away from my family, away from friends and everything I knew to be familiar in 2006 with $150 in my bank account and a dream of finding something bigger than what I had in Dallas. The first place I got a job was at a holistic verterinarian clinic, Crystal Mountain Animal Hospital. Little did I know, this place would become much more then a job to me. The experiences I had and lessons I learned have stuck with me through the years.

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Monica Wilcox's picture

When The Mexican Border Becomes More Than a Line

Photo from David Zeiger's film "Displaced in the New South"

While traveling through southern Arizona on Interstate 10 did not provide me an overheated mirage of a tropical spa, I did experience delusions of a 100 MPH speed limit. Why not, since there’s a sandbar every ten feet to slow my runaway minivan? Among the yucca plants and dust devils I noticed the regular presence of border patrol, even 200 miles from the Mexican border in a wide sand bowl where lizards fear to cross.

“Really?” I asked my Samsonite luggage stacked in the passenger seat. “Are illegal immigrants really sneaking into our country through this misery? Anyone who survives a trek like that is a soul we may want on American soil -- because that, my trusty traveling companion, is determination with a capital D.”

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Heather Sobieralski's picture

Really Gisele? A Breastfeeding Law?

Breast feeding is NOT always so natural

When the supermodel Gisele made a statement this summer that it should be a law for all mothers to breastfeed their babies for six months, it got me thinking about my own experience with little ones at my breasts. I had very different feeding journeys with my two children. My second child latched on immediately. He made sweet suckling noises, stared into my eyes and paused his nursing only to smile at me. It was beautiful, natural and exactly how we are brainwashed that it should be. But it is amazing that I had tried a second time at all, as trying to feed my first child was at best, mechanical. I needed eight arms, 17 contraptions, tea bags for my nipples and a big box of tissues for my tears.

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Turning Online Friends into Real Life BFFs

The Bloggess Jenny Lawson, Owning PInk's Lissa Rankin, and BlogHer Co-Founder Jory Des Jardins

When I attended the BlogHer 2010 conference last weekend, I was struck by the power of what happens when you gather women (and few token men) together with the intention of supporting each other. My friend Jory Des Jardins is one of the founders of BlogHer.com, and I was SO proud to see her there, gloriously pregnant and radiant with her passion for the yearly estrogen fest of their annual conference. When we first met and she was describing to me what inspired she and her co-founders Lisa Stone and Elisa Camahort Page to launch BlogHer, I didn’t quite get it. Now, after attending the conference, I do. It’s all about building community, empowering women to stand behind and uplift each other, raising the decibels of our voices, and linking arm and arm as we beeline towards our dreams.

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Childless By Choice

Happy Saturday Posse Party Owning Pink! Please give a warm welcome welcome to oh-so sexy Pinkie, Caren Schmidt. I met Caren on Twitter and got to know her better in the Pink Community. With every interaction and conversation, my love for her grew deeper and stronger. I got the pleasure of meeting her in person when I visited San Francisco earlier this year. Since then our connection has become stronger and I am happy to announce that she will be visiting Texas to lead our Owning Sexy Pink Posse event in Dallas later this month. Enjoy! -- Megan Monique

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