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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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, hypersexualized and unrealistically perfect female forms are associated with products, services and programs across television and computer screens, billboards, glossy pages of magazines, video games and social media. Girls and women are dehumanized and portrayed as a commodity in these advertisements, music videos, and films – women’s bodies are used to sell everything from…
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How to Get a Job When You Have Never Worked Before
Many women, despite having a good education and advanced degree, 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 all throughout your life. You probably never talked about it with anybody and probably always thought you were 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 of it. Yet, as an adult, you probably are struggling in your relationships, mood, or suffer from chronic depression or anxiety. Or you tried to disclose your experience to someone, but that brought more trauma in your life. You just wish you could completely wipe…
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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…
