Elizabeth Lesser

Why Women Need to Be the Ones Occupying Wall Street

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: The-Feminine-Aspect, Risk Taking, Gender Differences, Catalyst, Occupy Wall Street, Dr. Judy Rosener, Corporate Greed, Power, Elizabeth Lesser, Power Inequities, The Masculine Aspect, Women News

What's the Occupy Wall Street movement -- an ongoing, multi-city protest against corporate greed, cronyism and inequity -- got to do with gender politics, you ask? I say: everything.

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Pick a You, Any You: The Emotional Cost of Living Online

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Stephanie Rosenbloom, Sarah Ferguson, Michelle Bachmann, Approval, Guilt, The Pope, Katie Couric, Peggy Orenstein, Wavy Gravy, Authenticity, Anderson Cooper, New York Times, Elizabeth Lesser, Facebook, Women News

Where did we become convinced that the faux is any more acceptable than the real? And why do we so readily buy into the idea that the images everyone else is presenting are any more real than our own?

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Arianna And The Art Of Being Fearless

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Reinventing-Yourself-After-50, Huffington Post Aol, Living News, Twitter, Aol, Arianna Huffington Sleep, Life After 50, The Huffington Post, Facebook, Arianna Huffington, Marianne Schnall, Huffington Post Aol Merger, Tim Armstrong AOL, Fearlessness, Mastering Your Fears, Reinventing Yourself, Daring to Be Ourselves, On Becoming Fearless, Jane Fonda, Gloria Feldt, No Excuses, The Omega Institute, Elizabeth Lesser, Women-Over-50-on-Facebook, Women's Empowerment, Women in Politics, Women in Business, Women and Power, Women in Media, Aging, Inspiration, Healthy Living News

Learn from Arianna Huffington, as I have: stay current; share power; maintain and grow your network of contacts; be on the lookout for opportunities. It's simple, really: believe in yourself and miracles can happen.

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Omega Institute Comes to NYC for a Weekend of Renewal

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Allice Walker, Phoenix Process, New Age, Omega Institute, Steven Pinker, Claude Anshin Thomas, Elizabeth Lesser, Spirituality, Byron Katie, Healthy Living News

Elizabeth Lesser presented one of her resonant themes - the "Phoenix" metaphor and the concept of letting go of past issues that deter us from rising and regenerating. Introducing herself to the jam-packed room with the remark, "I'm a mystical, introverted kind of girl," she launched into the renewal philosophy.

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Loving Our Shadows At Omega NYC

Huffington Post | Koa Beck | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Shadow Work, The Shadow Process, Omega NYC, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Omega Institute, The Shadow Effect, Elizabeth Lesser, Debbie Ford, Healthy Living News

Twenty minutes before Omega NYC's keynote speakers Elizabeth Lesser and Byron Katie are scheduled to take the stage to address the topic of spiritual ...

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Full-Time Daddies, Women in the House and the New Kitchen Wisdom

Elizabeth Lesser | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parenting Tips, How to Parent, Parenting Women, Raising Kids, Parenting Advice, Parenting, Elizabeth Lesser, Family, Wellness, Healthy Living News

Kitchen wisdom is the genius that many women have honed over centuries. It includes emotional intelligence, psychological insight and social conscience. It's a witches' brew of qualities and aptitudes.

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On Becoming a Grandmother

Elizabeth Lesser | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cool Grandmothers, Grandchildren, Parenting, Elizabeth Lesser, Grandmothers, Young-Grandmothers, Grandparent, Grandparents, Grandparenting, Family, Healthy Living News

A friend asked me if becoming a grandmother made me feel old. I didn't know what to say. It's not that it makes me feel young. Rather, it makes me know what matters; it wakes me up.

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Women Connecting Across the Generational Divide: From Gloria Steinem to Courtney Martin

Marianne Schnall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Women, Ana Nogales, Courtney Martin, Feminism, Helen Thomas, Omega Institute, Elizabeth Lesser, Feministing, Healthy Living News

This Omega Institute conference sets out to build bridges across generations that inspire and empower women to change the world.

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Planet Earth: Difficult Times, Insatiable Appetites ... Doomed?

Janice Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Earth, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help US Grow, Wendell Berry, Janice Taylor, Middle East, David Kessler, Omega-Institute, An End to Overeating, United States, Colorado River, Sustainability, Bottled Water, Elizabeth Lesser, Our Lady of Weight Loss, Green News

We human beings are pretty crude creatures. We want more, more, more. We have insatiable appetites. We do everything in excess, in both our personal and collective lives.

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Interview with Omega Institute Co-Founder Elizabeth Lesser

Marianne Schnall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Feminism, Oprah Winfrey, Women, Meditation, Spirituality, Omega Institute, Eckhart Tolle, Elizabeth Lesser, Feministi Throught, Aging, Social Consciousness, Mortality, Healthy Spritual Living, Social Revolution, Sprituality, Collective Consciousness, Technology, Healthy Living News

Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical. And we waste so much time -- almost every minute -- on swimming against the river.

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Renowned Women Speak Out on Palin and the Election

Marianne Schnall | Posted 05.25.2011

I decided to pose identical questions by email to dynamic women -- Melissa Etheridge, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler and more -- to just see what kind of responses would come in.

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