I came across a viral social media meme for parenting that says: What if "Stop Crying" turned to "I'm listening" for an entire generation? It is a provocative sentence on raising children. How many of us were not allowed to…
I was only 22 years old when I discovered Worldpulse and decided to become a member, after reading stories from all around the world that deeply resonated with me. At the time, feminism was my foremost ideal and it still is…
I have a dream; a vision where all beings and living organisms live in harmony…. everyone lives in peace, and balance has been restored to the planet. Women and men, alike, embrace all their feminine and masculine traits; or…
Every women dream to have a happily married life, a caring and loving husband and responsible. A husband who will not hurt the wife physically. When i was young i can see my parents arguing until my father try to shoot my…
"The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others." - Pico Iyer World Pulse organized its first Encourager Party on June 26, 2020. It was a blast! As Encouragers joined the Zoom meeting, our party host Dawn…
I joined World Pulse in December 2017. Three years ago, I was an isolated, silenced, insecure stay-at-home mother without a clear direction in life. I thought pursuing personal dreams were already too late for me, and that I…
Hi there am Esther Natukunda. I come from Jinja Uganda east Africa. Am a mother of 2 and I raise my children single handedly because we were abandoned while I was pregnant and with a one and two month old baby. Life was too…
Hope is a choice in these trying times. I find hope in every seed that grows to bloom into a mature plant that can produce a stalk, stem or fruit with seeds that can be planted again. I find hope in farmers who continue to…
Unlike many people, I had a difficult take off. This made me to come to the conclusion that life may not hold beautiful experience for everybody on earth, most especially myself. Therefore, I cherished every little…
“The best gift life can ever give you is sister who understands you, feels your pain and takes the journey with you.” I have always admired their relationship. It’s genuine and pure. Two women who found each other and have…
A group of about 30 young men just passed our apartment, shouting "We want Justice" . On any other Sunday evening, they would have gone completely unnoticed, especially in a neighborhood like ours which is close to two…
My background/inspiration: I have always been a compassionate, feminist (who believes in equal rights for everyone). I firmly believe that I chose this life, the people and events in them, for a reason. My own personal…
" When we invest in women, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.“ - Melinda Gates This afternoon, I got a chance to meet some of the bravest and strongest women I know: mothers raising children with…
I joined high school in 2006 and one I thing I remember was how impolite people were with me, how they segregated me because of my size, how they treated me because of how I looked like. I do not know who defines beauty in…
World Pulse began with a dream of this visionary woman who dared to listen to women's imprisoned voices more than the noises of the status quo. We are surely grateful that Jensine took hold on her dream and birthed it into a…
As I'm writing this, I'm listening to Les Miserables Do You Hear The People Sing? It's a revolutionary song calling for freedom. This my "fight song" as we end the campaign on the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based…
Dear World Pulse Sisters, Thank you for the love, support, and encouragement you showed Hawwah and me at the Aspire Reinvent Conference last October 14-15, 2020. From the time I announced that I will be one of the speakers…
As the world faces its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, discussions on mental health became more prevalent nowadays. Having mental health challenges is an invisible pandemic by itself. It needs the same concern and…
Yesterday morning, I heard an unexpected knock on the door. When I opened it, a man asked if there is a Karen Axalan living here. I identified myself, then he handed me an envelope. While receiving the package, my thoughts…
The story of my life and living cannot be complete without mentioning technology. To some, this may be blasphemy, but to me, who went through it, it is to the glory of God Almighty. The summary of my message is no one can…
I feel hope when I learn that women are rising When one woman has reached another in need When a woman who has been punished for speaking out Meets a sister. When girls learn that they have a right to be free To choose their…
It is the women I love Those women who meet with me in the woods Who call us to circle with their drums Who come to dance ourselves into our own power Those women who call on us to create a shift To find and use our voices…
We just celebrated the 120th independence of the Philippines from Spain after America bought the country from them in 1898. By July 4th, 1949 the Americans liberated us after fighting off Japanese off the island. At that…
There is a popular slogan in my community which goes “a woman’s enemy is another woman”. I deduced from this slogan that women are responsible for the insecurity of other women and this greatly affected me psychologically. I…