Tag: Maya Angelou
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When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That’s why it’s important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are. – Maya Angelou. This short little quote helped me understand the ‘how’ of relationships. I kept expecting people to be true to their words, because I…
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Support Female Personal Developers
I’ve been thinking…(uh oh)…. There is an underlying pattern of misogyny in the genre of personal development. It isn’t intentional, mind you. I’m beginning to theorize it as a result of conditioning. Although ‘touchy feely’, ’emotions’ and ‘naval contemplation’ has been ‘seen’ as a woman’s field just google ‘personal development speakers’, or ‘motivational speakers’, or…