Your Journey Creates Your Purpose

~ True Story ~ “You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth, so others know they aren’t alone.” ― Jeanne McElvaney, Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children Terry C. is an Executive Assistant and Social Media Manager, and she […]

Staying True to Yourself

~ True Story ~ “Do you know where you’re going to…do you like the things that life is showin’ you. Where are you going to…do you know?” ~ By Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser (performed by Diana Ross) Michele MacShane, is an actress, singer and writer. She has been actively involved in the entertainment industry […]

When women support each other, incredible things happen…

~ True Story ~ “Women are more powerful than most of us give ourselves credit for. When we actually decide to stop the jealousy and the finger pointing, and band together to laugh with one another and understand one another, it’s like a beautiful firework display on the Fourth of July in Vegas, baby!” ― Helen […]

What I Love About My Daughters

~ True Story ~ “Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.” ― Margaret E. Sangster Empress Empowerment Coaching (https://empress-empowerment-coaching.nl), Tina De Keyzer-van Bruggen‘s interview with Monique (Moya) Wijngaarde-Bekema (July 13, 2021) Tina: Why are your daughters so special? Monique: What […]

Our Choices Affect All

~ History ~ Scene Description from the screenplay, Sacajawea, The Windcatcher — The Great Water stretches out before Sacajawea. Waves continue one after the other, pounding against her bare feet. She stretches her arms wide across the skeleton of the “Big Fish,” a whale washed ashore. She has chosen to obey her Chief and moves […]

Be a Trailblazer and Never Look Back

~ True Story ~ “My Tribe of people that I work with are leaders, and we all want to follow the same path of creativity and simplicity. It’s taken a while to find them, like a needle in a haystack – but I’ve found the needles, and they are amazing. I’m here to tell you, […]

Blended.

~ True Story ~ “Like an angel that shed the heaviness of an earthly body, the blindfold removed, I rise and see only one thing, answer to one thing… His face.” ― Debra Harris Johnson Debra Johnson, Keynote Speaker & Freelance Writer – Back in the day, I was called “mixed,” a term meaning different […]

Transition Higher

~ History ~ Scene Description from the screenplay, Sacajawea The Windcatcher – It is 1800, and Boinair (Sacajawea) is 12 years old. It is Shoshone tradition that she transitions into adulthood, even though she’s still a child. As our story begins, we first see her alone in a small tipi overpowered by the majestic wilderness, […]

On Eagle’s Wings

~ History ~ Imagine riding on the back of a great raptor as it soars through an angry storm of billowing clouds and piercing rain. Up and down, over and around hills and valleys, it bursts through the fog and wind. Your hair is plastered back, you cannot open your physical eyes, yet you believe […]

Believe in the Walk

~ History ~ Scene description from the screenplay, Sacajawea, The Windcatcher: On Sacajawea’s journey she meets an elder woman, a Shaman, Watkuweis, who recognizes the girl’s spiritual pain. “Your spirit waits with another…” says the Shaman. The girl does not understand the words, for through her human sadness of leaving her family behind, she feels […]