by Pam Hernandez | Dec 22, 2016 | Children, Front Page, Generations, Mothers, Personal Growth, Self Acceptance
One of my favorite writers, Brene Brown, says, “So many of us live our lives worrying about what people will think. We think to ourselves, “If I look perfect, live perfectly, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of “I am not good...
by Pam Hernandez | Dec 9, 2016 | Change, Children, Fathers, Front Page
Watching all the memorials of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I found myself tearing up. My father enlisted in the Navy in June of 1944. He was only 17 and his mother had to sign her permission. He served through 1946 on the USS Enterprise. He...
by Pam Hernandez | Nov 29, 2016 | Change, Corporate Culture, Culture Audit, Front Page, workshops
The first time I took my daughter to Take Your Daughter to Work Day over 20 years ago, she was most impressed with the bathrooms. There were mirrors on both sides, and when we went in she exclaimed, “Look, Mom! We go on forever,” commenting on the infinity effect of...
by Pam Hernandez | Oct 30, 2016 | Change, Front Page, Mothers, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology, Unconscious Bias
A dear friend of mine is dealing with the imminent death of her 98-year old mother. Her parents have been married for 72 years and the next days and perhaps weeks loom large. I walked this path with my own father a few years ago. My mother passed away over 40 years...
by Pam Hernandez | Oct 5, 2016 | Change, Front Page, Personal Growth, Unconscious Bias
Everyone had one of these as a child. Look through one end, turn the wheel, and you see a dazzling array of images, each a tiny bit different from the one before and the one after. (Mouse over the image below to recall the experience) Beautiful and yet – imagine that...
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