Tag: independence

  • Why Support Is Important (Even If You Don’t Need It)

    Did you make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight? Maybe lift some weights? Probably don’t want to use these as for 3-pound weights….. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder. I learned a long time ago—mainly as a child watching my mother—to be self-sufficient, to need no one.  That lesson was something I relied upon heavily…

  • Wanted: Goddess Consort

    Photo by Mrs. Maze, whose work I enjoy immensely. When it comes to romantic relationships, I like to think of myself as a Goddess, though I suppose I’m really more of a Trinity of Goddesses. I’m not so much Kali or Aphrodite, and I’m definitely not a submissive Goddess.  Not to mix pantheons, but I’m…

  • Why I'm Not Looking for My "Other Half"

       Photo by   Dave Parker  It’s been at least a dozen years since I was first introduced to Stephen Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE but I had forgotten his theories on dependence to independence to interdependence until someone read them to me recently in context of our work environment. I was still…