POWER IN STORY TELLING - "I AM WOMAN I AM HERE"

This morning I woke up and felt a sense of confusion, dread and misgiving.....too many bad things happening around us....too much hate, too much fear, too much anger......as mentioned in my last posting I started a magazine called I AM WOMAN Magazine about two years ago after I retired and yesterday our issue 11 was published and being a small business we had to distribute to our shop outlets......

I had a friend spend the night with me last night and this morning she said "Do you know that women around Fiji look forward to your magazine as they love to read the REAL stories. A lady told me she was inspired by one of your stories and literally went out and started her own business....with the lack of qualifications....with limited financial resources.....she started her selling of vegetables business....and it is doing well now...."

Wow is our magazine that inspirational?.....We have been receiving a lot of compliments lately about the stories and how inspiring they are....made me feel so good......we are doing something right......yes we have been struggling but the "blood, sweat and tears" are finally paying off...

This is our third year where we have published to date 11 issues and from the compliments we are getting, we are beginning to see that more women are approaching us to tell their story.....in the hope that their past experiences will help more women today to be able to cope with trauma, struggles and keep striving.....

Over the two years I have also found that we women can also pull one another down and within these two years I have experienced this with saddness as a few of these women I have made sacrifices for......tend to think of themselves and what they can get from me......they still doing it....but I am STRONG and they always say KARMA can be real cruel when it comes around......I request ardently for all of us women to see the kindness and goodness within one another FIRST before pointing a finger at the badness within us......

World Pulse - you are a platform I can freely share.....I thank you for this space......It is needed.....

I hope we the citizens of the world are able to get through this pandemic and show our humane kindness.....much love to all of you.....