mothering

Mothering Me In My Mothering

“There is nothing like walking into a room of women where you feel completely safe and loved.” After a day of being bombarded by global problems and being inspired by some of the solutions at last week’s Social Good Summit for United Nations Week, I popped by my old church congregation to a lovely gathering […]

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Ch-ch-ch-changes

  Work life reform and social good are two parts of the same whole.” As I have dived deeper and deeper into the work life balance conversation, particularly in an American context, I have not been able to hide my shock and anger at the language I find surrounding mothers in the formal workplace. Denigrating, […]

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The Moment of Connection, The Moment When You Care

For Christy Turlington Burns, it was hemorrhaging after delivering a child and realizing that without stellar medical care, she would have died. For Heather Armstrong, it was researching natural childbirth as she prepared to deliver her second child, and being horrified at what some elements of Western medicine had done to it. It prompted her […]

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Be A Planet-Changing Force For Social Goodness

Join When You Wake Up A Mother in New York this week from the UN Foundation Mashable 92 St Y Social Good Summit to learn about the interplay of technology and social media in solving the world’s biggest problems. Gathering for United Nations Week are not only the world’s leaders, but the world’s most passionate […]

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When Outright Discrimination Gets Mistaken as a Quest for Work Life Balance: Or How the Judge Got it Wrong!

I’ve been quietly steaming over last week’s decision by Judge Preska to dismiss the Bloomberg women’s class action, anchoring her decision it seems, on former GE CEO Jack Welch’s view that, “There is no such thing as work life balance. There are choices, and you make them, and they have consequences”. On one level, absolutely […]

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When You Wake Up A Mother…

You Wake Up the World Last week ten bloggers traveled with Bono’s ONE.org to Kenya, to experience for themselves the reality of mothering in Africa. How much reality can you experience when you are a middle class, educated, American? When Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com went to Bangladesh last month with Christy Turlington’s “Every Mother Counts” […]

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What Gets You Up in the Morning?

“The question is not what keeps you up at night but what gets you up in the morning.” ~ Bill Taylor, Co-founder, Fast Company Focus Forward from Care.com Energy conservation (yours, not the planet’s), story-telling to the power of ten, paradigm shifting solutions for how we train teachers and in turn prepare our work force, […]

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Because Every Mother Counts, Every Day

It’s Not Enough Cards, flowers, the ubiquitous breakfast in bed… coming to a household near you this Sunday morning! It is a beautiful and important thing to celebrate mothers. But you know what’s coming next. It is not enough. It’s not enough to give mothers a Hallmark day once a year and denigrate, discriminate and […]

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How To Be The Mother Your Children Need And The Woman You’re Meant to Be

Simply be who you are and claim the extraordinary nature of what it is you do every day. There are days when I am the most fabulous mother who ever drew breath (OK, maybe hours… Uh, would you believe minutes?). And then there are the moments when I cannot possibly imagine getting through the next […]

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She Negotiates Balance and Purpose

Chrysula Winegar Joins She Negotiates University Training and Coaching Staff! I recently joined the She Negotiates University training and coaching staff and will be teaching She Negotiates Balance and Purpose beginning January 17, 2011.  Lisa Gates, Head Coach and outright genius woman, interviewed me over the weekend.  Want to know more about this step I’ve taken, […]

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