Discover Your True self
A collection of resources, guidelines, tips and techniques for the personal and professional development of women. We help women to grow, learn, heal and thrive. We guide you to discover your true self amidst external chaos and obstacles.
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Why women choose to live with abusive partners..
Violence against women by their partners is prevalent in all countries, across different socio-economic classes. “An estimated 87,000 women who were intentionally killed in 2017 globally, more than half (50,000- 58 per cent) were killed by intimate partners or family members, more than a third (30,000) of the women intentionally killed in 2017 were killed by their current or former intimate partner.” UN Women Over the last 30 years or so, most of the females who worked us in India as domestic help had a very similar story. They had physically abusive and alcoholic husbands. There isn’t any reason to think that domestic violence is prevalent among lower socio-economic…
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Objectification and Exploitation of Girls and Women by the Mass Media and the Social Media
. Objectification of Women by the Mass Media From the early nineteenth century, in television, films, printed and television commercials, and music videos, sexual objectification, and exploitation of women became an increasingly growing trend. Along with objectification, different industries also started using a false and unreal image of women’s physical appearance, body image, and beauty. Today, across television, billboards, glossy pages of magazines, and social media we can see hypersexualized and unrealistically perfect female forms. Advertisements, music videos, and films dehumanize girls and women and portray them as commodities. Women’s bodies are used to sell everything from car tires to entertainment !! Exploitation of girls and women by the…
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How to Get a Job When You Have Never Worked Before
Many women, despite having a good education and advanced degrees, are not economically independent. Women, in many societies never get a chance to have a career for various reasons. Some families do not allow a daughter or a daughter-in-law to go out and work. Sometimes, women themselves do not take their professional life and the value of economic independence seriously when they are younger and agree to get married and stay at home until they realize the importance of being self-independent. There are, of course, women who take a career break for raising their kids or to stay at home when the kids are younger. Sometimes, getting back to…
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Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuses: Resources and Guidelines on Healing
If you are a survivor of childhood sexual abuses, you are most likely fighting a silent and invisible battle throughout your life. You probably never talked about it with anybody and thought you would be successful in overcoming whatever happened to you as a child. you might have always tried to minimize the experiences of abuses by blocking all the memories associated to those experiences. Yet, as an adult, you probably are struggling in your relationships, mood, or suffer from chronic depression or anxiety. survivors of childhood sexual abuses just wish to completely wipe all the memories out of their brain. If you have been molested or abused…
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Are we oppressing ourselves? The truth behind Judgment and snarky comments
In high school, I survived a mean girl. Ironically, she was my best friend. She was back biting me, to my other friends, and putting me down through snarky comments. I remember one incident when I excitedly told her I was going to go to Mexico with my older brother and sister. She told me she hoped I caught a parasite. So, that was not a very subtle comment and that was nearing the end of our friendship. Because of her constantly putting me down, I lost myself and all my friends. I attempted suicide. I believed what she said about me and decided I didn’t want…
