Tag Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter
Hiding Is Not Humility-My Own Worst Enemy for Single Moms
by Gail Cawley Showalter, Founder of SMORE for Women from My Own Worst Enemy by Janet Davis Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you heard a voice in your head say, “Just who do you think you are?” And what was your answer? Did you back off? Did you cower? Did you have a […]
Beauty & The Beast – Fairy Tales We Believe and Teach Our Daughters
Beauty & the Beast I’m rerunning an old post here. I could not let this pass-all this talk about a movie. There should be so much more concern with the fairy tales we tell our children. We talk about wanting our daughters to grow up to be self sufficient. We pretend we want them to […]
How to Find Meaning in Your Life
How to Find Meaning Do you feel that your life has meaning? I hope so. You see, I think every life has meaning, though the meaning varies greatly from person to person. I also believe that it is futile to figure it all out. People seem to like assigning events to God and giving him […]
How to Make Wise Career Choices
Career Choices What should I study? What path should I take? I often hear these questions from women that I coach. Women, more than, men seem to have trouble thinking of themselves having a career. Some are coming out of a divorce and others haven’t found the job that was right for them. Still others […]
How to Have a Strategy for Your Life
Have a Strategic Plan Related Posts – Difficult People, Why? (audio), Change Your Life Boundaries Are Strategic Businesses have strategic plans. A strategic plan is a deliberate and intentional plan for each step of a business or endeavor. I find that women are more likely to go through life letting things happen to them than […]
Living with Grief
Living with Grief, a chapter in Living Learning Loving I’m not good with grief. I’ve had plenty of practice, but I don’t seem to get better at it. It may be that I don’t like change any more than the next person or it may be that I really, truly hate saying “Goodbye.” My brother-in-law, Firmin […]
How to Persevere
How to Persevere My recent article in Single Matters magazine gives you four important things to do if you want to persevere. Believe and persevere are two words that are loaded with promise for the fruitful future. Without believing, you won’t think you can persevere. And without persevering, you won’t have the fruit of what you believe. Read more . […]
Do you know who you are? Being present will change your life.
Being present in your life will change how you live it. Your self assurance and self awareness will give you clarity of purpose and joy.
A Frog is Still a Frog, Not a Prince-Don’t Kiss Him
Don’t Kiss the Frog Related post: How to NOT Date a Loser Women sometimes learn the hard way, but we learn. We know better than to make the same mistake twice. We know now that a frog may be a toad. This is No Fairytale Once upon a time in a land far, […]
Grief Interrupts Life
Grief is the Uninvited Guest that Interrupts our Life There are many circumstances that bring grief into our lives. As common as it is for many, including me, grief hits hard and is often more difficult to handle than we expect it to be. I recently lost my dear brother-in-law and though he had lived […]
gailshowalterblog.com 