Entries by Tracee

New Form of Life – Felisa Wolfe-Simon

I was riding the elliptical machine at the gym when Felisa Wolfe-Simon came on three screens to report that she had discovered a new form of life at Mono Lake in California. She immediately captivated me. She was engaging and made her announcement by way of query and story. This young woman, a NASA astrobiologist, […]

Money and the Law of Attraction: PR Sarah v. Mommy Blogger

The “blogger’s should get paid” debate rages on with PR Sarah’s anonymous column From PR with Love featured on Mom Blog Magazine. In her post, Why PR People Get Paid and You Don’t , many bloggers reacted to her column with comments that were perhaps more interesting than the column itself. Earlier this year, I took […]

Spark Summit Q’s

The Spark Summit hosted experts on body image and girlhood, who fielded some complex questions and came up with some great answers. Q1: Brooklyn, NY: What do you have to say about sports, for example, competitive cheerleading, which are broadly feminized and ALWAYS over-sexualized by media? Q2: From Wellesley, MA: Have any of you brought your […]

Thanksgiving 2010

We cooked together while rocking out to Pandora’s Christmas station. Gotta teach the kids to cook. You know your on the right track when you lick the beater and its delicious! If you wear sunglasses cutting the onions won’t make you cry, Ainsley decided. It didn’t really work out that way, but it was a […]

The Gift of Maternal Lineage

It’s very powerful to know from whom you come. I met an artist in Denver this weekend, Alissa Hansen, who has found a beautiful and powerful way to keep a girl tethered to her feminine, maternal lineage. I wrote more about why this might matter to girls, how it can help them be more powerful […]

Screw Equal Pay – Sheconomy Baby!

So, the Paycheck Fairness Act , which “addresses pay disparities between men and women. The bill limits the defense that employers can use to respond to charges of wage discrimination based on sex, among other actions,” (HR.BLR.com) failed by two votes. Good Riddance, I say. Because Equal Pay, is not enough to correct 2000 years of […]

Change My Life: You’re The Girl Revolution

The Girl Revolution is You. The mothers and fathers who set the example, give advice on how to handle friends and boyfriends, the little whispers about how a boy should treat her, the warnings, the homework help, the encouragement to try new things, the pushes in the right directions, the advantages you give her, the […]

Body Peace Treaty

Now is as good a time as any to declare a Peace Treaty with your body. It’s kind of a cool mother-daughter exercise if you have a girl who’s known be a little hard on her self. Tracee Sioux is a Law of Attraction Coach at www.traceesioux.com.  She is the author of Love Distortion: Belle, […]

Pigtail Pals Helps Take Down Child Molester Manual

This post, On Silence and Taboo, was originally posted by Melissa Wardy at PigTail Pals. I’ve cross-posted it with her permission. Be sure to become her Facebook Fan, follow her on Twitter, buy an empowering t-shirt from her for a special girl in your life. Taboo: (n) A strong social prohibition or ban relating to […]

Life Coach: Dancing Away

Children learn their most significant and lasting lessons about autonomy and independence before the age of five. As a child begins to test her legs in the world, most of her initial walking away is from her mother. With her newfound skills, the child feels elated. It is crucial that the mother share a child’s […]

Life Coach: Bullying Bystanders Unite with Technology

Hey U.G.L.Y. (Unique, Gifted, Lovable, You) has started a campaign to fight back against Bullying. Bullying Bystanders Unite asks students to take a pledge to be eye witnesses and even record incidences with their cell phones. One Hey U.G.L.Y. teen team-member was attacked and brutally kicked in the face numerous times, when the police and […]

TGR Named New Moon Girls Wonder Woman Blogger

Nancy Gruver, publisher of New Moon Girls – a magazine just for girls, written by girls – named The Girl Revolution a Wonder Woman Blogger on her Daughters.com website. I am thrilled to share this honor with several other Wonder Women Bloggers who also speak out on behalf of girls. Included were Amy Jussel, the one-woman […]