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The Queen of My Self
Women’s Power – Part 2
By
Donna Henes
Women’s Power – Part 2By Max Dashu There’s a striking interplay between women’s spiritual and political leadership, especially in indigenous societies. I’m thinking of of the Evenki shaman Olga who was both chieftain and religious leader of her Siberian village about a century ago, and the machis of Chile, shamans who are deeply involved in…
Women’s Power – Part 1
By
Donna Henes
This article was written by a brilliant colleague, who I very much admire. She founded the Suppressed Histories Archives, an archive of hundreds of thousands of images of women of power throughout the ages and across cultures. The piece is divided into three parts. Women’s PowerBy Max Dashu, What does that mean? Women who openly…
Powerful Words
By
Donna Henes
Here are some wise words of inspiration in regard to your relationship to power. Take them in and feel their energy work on you. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.– Alice Walker The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less…
Tend and Befriend: The Power of Women’s Friendships
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Donna Henes
“Men walk, women talk.” The veracity of this the popular saying was recently proved in a landmark study conducted by two women scientists at UCLA. The long-held idea that the familiar “fight or flight” mechanism was the universal human response to stress, (based of studies that were conducted with only male subjects) was turned on…
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