Ask ReBecca – Domestic Violence Survivor Passion-Driven to help Women – Duplicate – [#35483]
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Yesterday I received the following question under Ask ReBecca: I am writing because I am Passion-Driven to help Women of Domestic violence and Sexual Assault, I Am A Survivor of 43 years of Abuse and 4 years of a SoLo Life. I Am 57 Now With No Income and I Know it Takes Money to Make Money. I Feel Stuck, Please Any Suggestions Would Be Appreciated. Thank You, Laurie Dear Laurie, I appreciate your reaching out. First I wanted to...

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Take Baby Steps to Achieve Big Goals
Baby step goal setting
You want me to take baby steps to achieve big goals?  I can barely make it through the day with children to take care of, a home, a job, bills that I can't pay and then add in constant anxiety attacks, depression and illness, oh yeah, let me set some freakin goals lady! Yes, even with all that you have going on, I want you to set some Freakin Goals! Gosh if my mother heard me using the word freakin...

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Heaven Must Have Needed Angels – poem dedicated to those we lost September 11th
Heaven Must Have Needed Angels – poem dedicated to those we lost September 11th
The title says it all, “Heaven Must Have Needed Angels”. After the tragedies that follow I was unable to rest until I had written down my thoughts and feelings.  Many of the poems were written as I watched the events unfold on television with the rest of the world.  The poems helped me grieve and my hope is they will help you too. While I know to some the title doesn’t work but for me, it helps to calm my mind knowing...

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Ask ReBecca – Domestic Violence Survivor Passion-Driven to help Women
ask rebecca
Yesterday I received the following question under Ask ReBecca: I am writing because I am Passion-Driven to help Women of Domestic violence and Sexual Assault, I Am A Survivor of 43 years of Abuse and 4 years of a SoLo Life. I Am 57 Now With No Income and I Know it Takes Money to Make Money. I Feel Stuck, Please Any Suggestions Would Be Appreciated. Thank You, Laurie Dear Laurie, I appreciate your reaching out. First I wanted to...

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Sharing our stories is why we are here
Women of Impact Blog
Do you ever have those days where you feel like you are just there for the ride?   Have you ever gotten halfway through a crappy day and realized that you had the power to snap out of it but forgot you had that power? The answer for me is a big Yes! I often admit that for me to be in a good mindset I need to fill my mind with something that lights a fire in my belly. For...

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How to Create Your Own Tribe of Role Models on Social Media
Top Mentors and Role Models that Inspire me Daily - free steps to success printable
I wanted to share how to create your own tribe of role models and mentors through social medial.  I have received so much support from the long line of Role Models that I secretly stalk online. Ok, I really don’t stalk them but I have searched out people that inspire me and I follow them on social media, it can’t get much easier than that. I am often shocked when someone doesn’t know who Tony Robbins is, I am like...

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Living in the Moment after Domestic Violence – I finally realized why I struggled living in the moment
Living in the Moment - I finally realized why I struggled to live in the moment and be happy after domestic violence
"Everyone agrees it's important to live in the moment, but the problem is how," says Ellen Langer, a psychologist at Harvard and author of Mindfulness. "When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there." Overriding the distraction reflex and awakening to the present takes intentionality and practice. Do you struggle to live in the moment? Are you safe and away from abuse but still struggle to stop and smell the flowers? You are...

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Breathing consciously for 19 seconds will help you feel better
Breathing consciously for 19 seconds will help you feel better
If you want to learn how to breathe right, watch a baby, this is how we all used to breathe Who knew we could breathe wrong? I knew breath was important but had no idea that doing breathing exercises could improve my overall health and mindset.  Since I am always searching for ways to improve my life when I saw a video that assured me that in 19 seconds I could feel better, I thought, why not. Of course, I knew...

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Mentors and Role Models – Top 6 Mentors and Role Models that Inspire me Daily!
Mentors and Role Models - Top 6 Mentors and Role Models that Inspire me Daily!
I am a big believer in the power of having Mentors and Role Models. We encourage our children to have mentors and role models, so why does that change as we get older? My first Mentor was Tony Robbins, my sister had given me his 30-day program at one of the most pivotal times of my life, this changed me forever. You will never know it all and having someone to learn from and look up to will keep you focused...

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Highly Creative – Top 10 traits of a Highly Creative Person
Highly Creative – Top 10 traits of a Highly Creative Person
I just love when I come across something that helps me understand how truly highly creative I am, if this is you I encourage you to read the full article, this is really helpful too if you love a highly creative person. Click here for the full article titled, "10 Things to keep in Mind When Loving a Highly Creative Person" - written by Justin Gammill. I knew I was creative but had never heard it put this way. It...

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Role Models – be the Role Model you need – Life Advice from Oprah Winfrey
Role Models - be the Role Model you need - Life Advice from Oprah Winfrey
Role Models are a big part of my day. Most days, my most focused and productive, I listen or watch something from a Role Model that inspires me to focus on my success. A big part of what makes me feel success is writing to you and sharing what keeps me moving towards my dreams. Today, I opened Youtube and cast it on my tv, on the list of videos that showed up randomly was one called The Greatest Speech...

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Steps to Success Free Printable- Learn to Overcome 7 Roadblocks that Prevent Your Success
Steps to Success to avoid the 7 Roadblocks that Prevent Your Success Free Printable and Worksheet along with my Free Goal & Progress Workbook and Checklists
[bctt tweet="Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Marden" username="rebeccaburnsorg"] Scroll to the bottom to get your 7 Roadblocks Steps to Success Free Printable along with your Goal & Progress Workbook and Checklists you can be part of the elite 1% of people that achieve their goals by following the Steps to Success. Please Join the 1% Club and Learn the Steps to Success!...

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Free 7 Roadblocks to Success and Goal Setting Printable to help you Succeed Today!
Steps to success Free Printable
Learn to Overcome 7 Roadblocks that Prevent Your Success and Worksheet to Overcome the Roadblocks and Set Goals! Did you know that 97% of people have no written goals, of the 3% that have written goals, less than 1% achieve them? Why, because of the 3% that do write their goals, less than 1% ever look at them again or often enough to be inspired to make them happen. If you read and implement the steps of this document which...

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Parenting Resource to help children express feelings and emotions
Wink Wink the card with feelings. Cards help open discussions of feelings and emotions children may be unable to express. The cards are designed for parents or caregivers to discuss the cards with children and show them how to use. Children then select their feelings and emotions from several choices on the card and then deliver the card back to caregiver. There are 4 different cards: Help Me, Just Because, I’m Sorry, Today I Feel.
"I was so impressed with the Wink Wink (self-help printable) cards that I brought them into my psych class and passed them around. By the end of the class, everyone wanted to know how to purchase the cards. My goal is to help children and these cards will be a great tool that I plan to use and promote." (Mrs. Kelly, Hunking School, Bradford MA, my son's 4th-grade teacher) Why create a self-help printable card for children?  While these self-help...

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Who knew you could relieve stress and anxiety with a little pin – using Pinterest to change your mood and focus
Who knew you could relieve stress and anxiety with a little Pinning
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Pinterest I go! Use Pinterest for Stress Relief, who knew! When I first wrote this post around 3 years ago I had just recently learned about the power of Pinterest. It was months after hearing the name before I finally decided to check out what all the excitement was about. Well, here we are, maybe 3 or more years later. At first, I was interested in what the site had to offer me...

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Are You A Wannabee, Procrastinating Dreamer?
Are you a Wannabee Procrastinating Dreamer? Do you suffer with the anxiety of wanting something so much that you yearn and crave to be doing it every minute of every day? Stop by for immediate access to Free Goal & Progress Workbook and Checklists created to keep you Focused & Successful.
Do you suffer from the anxiety of wanting something so much that you yearn and crave to be doing it every minute of every day but you procrastinate? I do. I admit that I am a wannabee procrastinating dreamer.  I procrastinate about writing, I think about writing all the time, I fall to sleep at night thinking about writing, I talk about writing; sadly, the only thing that I don’t do is actually write on a consistent basis. Definition of...

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Self-Esteem – Improve Your Self-Esteem by looking in the mirror
Self-Esteem – I Improved My Self-Esteem by looking in the mirror
One of my all-time favorite books is called Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach. A dear friend gave me this book a few years after I was out of the domestic violence and I believe it helped me in more ways than I can list.  If you ever read another book of self-discovery, read this one. This one book helped me recover in the aftermath of domestic violence and greatly helped improve my self-esteem with each page and lesson that...

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