WOOF: Media Monday: Taming Your Alpha B****

Taming Your Alpha Bitch, by Rebecca Grado and Christy Whitman, reinforces what we've known for decades, ladies. Every advancement we've made, every step towards equality in the work force, in politics, even at home, have been hard-fought and well-earned; sometimes at the expense of our emotional and physical well-being.

All too often, our accomplishments leave us with that "glass half-empty" feeling, and we end up pushing too hard, along with assuming the Alpha Bitch mindset which, ironically, takes away our power rather than enriching it.

Enter Taming Your Alpha Bitch!

Whether you're a Forceful, Controlling, Competitive, or Disruptive Alpha, you'll find wonderfully detailed questions and answers to assist you in identifying your particular type in order to soften and improve your approach to life. Helpful Tips on dealing with work, home, or your partner are placed in each chapter along with easy-to-follow exercises.

You can even download a free meditation guide on the website:

If you find yourself barking up the wrong tree, Taming Your Alpha Bitch will teach you how to Wag more and bark less.

Rebecca Grado, MFT is a licensed intuitive psychotherapist, co-founder of the Goddess Retreat– a transformational weekend that awakens the radiance and power within women– and co-author of the upcoming book “Taming Your Alpha Bitch – How to be Fierce and Feminine (and get everything you want)”. A gifted writer, her work is featured with bestselling authors Dr. Wayne Dyer, Michael Beckwith, and Anthony Robbins.

She has been quoted in several news articles including self.com, aol.com, and momlogic.com Rebecca has studied metaphysics since 1985 and is a true visionary in her approach to energy work and healing. For over twenty-five years she has raised awareness on the planet through her books, seminars, and in her private practice. Skillfully blending her intuitive gift with traditional psychotherapy practices, she helps individuals transcend their limitations, discover their innate joy, and awaken their greatest potential.

Christy Whitman: Christy Whitman is an in-demand life coach, transformational leader, CEO and founder of the Quantum Success Coaching AcademyTM, a 12 month Law of Attraction coaching certification program. She has helped thousands of women and men around the world achieve their goals through her empowerment seminars, speeches, and coaching sessions and products. Christy’s life-changing message reaches over 100,000 people a month and she has been quoted in Seventeen, Woman’s World, Woman’s Day, Teen Vogue, The Star Ledger, and Knot Magazine.

As a certified Law of Attraction coach, her work has been promoted by and featured with best-selling authors like Marianne Williamson, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Marci Shimoff, Brian Tracy, Neal Donald Walsch, Abraham-Hicks and Louise Hay. She currently lives in Montreal with her husband, Frederic, and their two boys, Alexander and Maxim. Meet her at http://www.ChristyWhitman.com and http://www.7EssentialLaws.com.

Taming Your Alpha Bitch on Amazon

Video of the authors recent appearance on The Today Show!

For a light-hearted read: WOOF: Women Only Over Fifty on Amazon

Walk On

I saw a story on the news the other night that concerned me. It was about a school system that voted to eliminate failing grades. This seems to reflect a growing trend in our society that is an attempt to spare children from experiencing failure and disappointment. For example, in some cases, every child makes the team or gets a ribbon, even for finishing last in a competition.

I believe one of the reasons I became a strong WOOFer is because I experienced failure and disappointment. Whenever I would fall on my face, finish last, not reach a goal or make the team, my father would say "You don't always win and who told you life was fair anyway? Take this experience and grow from it. Get up, brush yourself off and walk on!"

This journey we call life is full of failure and disappointment. I'm glad I learned early that the bumps in the road make us better and stronger human beings. It also prepares us to handle the many roadblocks we will face as adults.

Melinda

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Accentuate The Pawsitive!

WOOF: 50 Women Over 50 - Toni Morrison

The list is endless. Women Only Over Fifty (WOOFers) who lead vibrant, meaningful lives and just seem to get younger every day. This week's Sister on the Frisky Side of Fifty:

Toni Morrison is winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature. Her Nobel citation reads: "[Toni Morrison]who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."

Morrison's novels typically concentrate on black women, but she does not identify her works as feminist. She says, "It's off-putting to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things."

Thank you, Ms. Morrison, for using your writing talent to open our minds and hearts to reality...both bitter and beautiful.

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Stand

Now that Tom and I are in somewhat of a normal routine, I have had more time to reflect on all the drastic changes that have occurred in my life these past three and a half years.

After losing my husband, I moved to a different state, and decided to start a brand new life. I began taking dance lessons and that is where I met Martha.

That first night we discovered that we were both “over fifty” widows. We both had long marriages, and our husbands suffered heart attacks. But we had much more in common, and I guess that is why Martha and I felt an instant bond.

We began going to a dance club and looking back, I feel like meeting Martha was a real turning point in my life. We helped each other get back into the real world, sharing our mutual feelings, concerns and issues along the way. We were in the same boat, but we also had another thing in common. We were determined we weren’t going to sink. We were both working hard to recover and find the “new normal.”

I remember that Rascal Flatts had a song out at the time entitled Stand. We would listen to that song on the way to the dance at Big Sandy, energized by some of the lyrics that were so meaningful to two struggling widows:

You feel like a candle in a hurricane. Just like a picture with a broken frame. Alone and helpless like you’ve lost your fight. But you’ll be alright…Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you’re made of…on your knees you look up—decide you’ve had enough…you get mad, you get strong, wipe your hands, shake it off…then you stand.

Martha and I both married again. I had lunch with her the other day and we talked about how wonderful things are now, and how our friendship helped us climb out of the darkness and move on with our lives. We learned how to Stand. Just like the words of the song: Every time you get up and get back in the race one more small piece of you starts to fall into place.

So, thanks, Martha. We got back in the race and discovered how to start holding on and keep holding on together. And it was so much easier for me to Stand with you by my side.

One Million Women

On

Wednesday,

October 22,

there was an all-day

live webcast of The Women's Conference 2008 on http://www.californiawomen.org/. Live blogging coverage was also provided for all conversation sessions. Speakers included Christiane Amanpour, Madeline K. Albright, Cecilia Maria Attias, Cherie Blair, Cerue Konah Garlo, Sister Joan Chittister, First Lady Maria Shriver, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Indra Nooyi, Campbell Brown, Warren Buffett, Chris Matthews and Bono. Click here to view the sessions.

Empowering women, of all ages, at home and all over the world.

--d.d. dawg