Entries by Tracee

Life Coach: Dear Oprah, There’s a Limit to my Magical DVR Powers

Dear Oprah, I was super-excited to open this month’s O Magazine and see that your retirement lasted only one summer and you will now be offering Oprah’s Lifeclass daily on your OWN Network starting October 10th. I have missed you and have hoped that you would come out of retirement, so yippee! I’m also oddly […]

"Demi Lovato Hates Herself," she said.

“You’re lucky you got my hair, it’s gorgeous,” I say while I am curling her hair before school. The last six months is the first time in her life she has allowed me any access at all to her hair, because she wants more intricate styles than she can do for herself. “Yeah, well I […]

Jess Weiner & Eating Disorders

Oh the hoopla over Jess Weiner’s article in Glamour Magazine, “Did Loving My Body Almost Kill Me?” going to a doctor, finding out that she’s 250 pounds, pre-diabetic and her cholesterol sucked and then having the audacity to do something about it. This, from the woman who wrote Life Doesn’t Begin Five Pounds From Now . […]

Dear Parents, We Don’t Believe in Homework

So my daughter came home from the first day of 4th Grade with this news, “My new teacher says she doesn’t believe in homework.” Yeah right, I thought. Last year, her 3rd Grade teacher had warned us that she had taught 4th Grade for many years and that’s when the really heavy work started to […]

Law of Attraction & Relationships: The Feelings of Boys and Girls

A new study involving the feelings habits of 2,000 children and teenagers was conducted by the University of Missouri that found that boys and men find talking about their feelings a completely unproductive waste of time. Previously, prior to my actually having a son, I would have argued, like many currently are on the Internet, […]

Time Magazine has an article stating that the “difference between earnings between the typical good-looking worker and the below-average-looking worker over a lifetime is $230,000.” David Hammerish has spent 20 years researching this and wrote about it in his new book, Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. Evidently, 59% of men are average (I’m […]

I have to confess that my passions have pretty much been fueled by anger since my tumultuous adolescence. Anger about gender inequity in general. Anger about horrible, awful, violent, terrible things that men have done to me in the past. Anger about how men treat women in general. Anger about motherhood discrimination in the workplace. […]

Love Distortion: Belle, Battered Codependent & Other Love Stories

The Girl Revolution is proud to announce the release of Love Distortion: Belle, Battered Codependent and Other Love Stories.  Order Now for only $9.99. In this compilation of blog posts, I draw a parallel between the reality of dating violence, domestic violence, molestation, rape, date rape (if there is such a thing) and cohesion with the […]

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Time Declares Chore Wars Over

Ruth Davis Konigsberg wrote and article in Time Magazine declaring that men are pulling their weight at home and at work, though women still feel put upon. Turns out that statistically both husband and wife, father and mother, feel equally stretched in a million directions without enough time to get everything done. The difference is […]

Zoo Fun

Lately I haven’t been having enough play in my life. It’s been all stress and anxiety. The “what ifs” have been having a circus in my brain, doing cartwheels, making me a mess of fearful futures that aren’t even that scary. The biggest “what ifs” being absurd like, “what if I won’t have anything to […]

Law of Attraction and Relationships: Grandparents

Today I’m grateful that my children have fantastic grandparents. I was blessed to know all four of my grandparents until my two grandfathers passed when I was an adult. Just the mention of grandparents coming to visit, is enough to make my children so excited they are even willing to emergency clean. LOL. My mother-in-law […]