“Are you happy with who you are?” As I looked in the mirror during a self-reflection of forgiveness, I couldn’t respond. Not because I didn’t know the answer, but rather because I knew the past trauma's I'd put myself through and what I was getting ready to admit to myself was going to be the truth and I wasn't ready to hear or receive it. After a few suffocating moments of silence, the best I could do was shake my head “no” as more tears, now double the size, rolled down my

There’s something most people don’t talk about when it comes to healing: It’s not always the pain that keeps you stuck…it’s the parts of your story you refuse to fully acknowledge. For a long time, I didn’t tell my story completely. Not because I didn’t remember it. Not because it didn’t matter. But because telling the full truth meant I had to sit with it without filters, without edits, without trying to make it sound better than it was. And if I’m honest…some parts of my st

One of the most popular slogans of the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s was, "You’ve come a long way, baby." Fast forward to the present day and that might hold true in some businesses, but there are some which seem to maintain a closed-door policy and a glass ceiling that women are still battering themselves against more than 40 years later. Technology The most obvious types of businesses that are harder for women to break into are tech-related. Tech seems more of a