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There are hidden lessons in your life holding the key to your happiness.As girls, the emotional patterns we learn from our mothers establish the blueprint for our lives. While some lessons uplift us, others diminish our spirits in subtle ways we carry into adulthood. In Women, Rice, and Beans, Brazilian-American author, transformational teacher, and coach dedicated to empowering women to live their best lives, Ana Barreto, shares how a life-changing trip home to care for her aging mother led to powerful revelations about the mother-daughter bond. Once back in her childhood home, Ana began ...

Unleash your superpowers by awakening the divine feminine within - stop holding yourself back and grow into the woman history and science is now celebrating! For centuries, the ways of the woman have been largely misunderstood. And, they still are, to a large degree. The systems put in place have always worked against us - time made marginalization “acceptable”, religion justified it, and justice looked the other way in order to avoid disrupting the status quo.

Being a woman in this highly male-dominated world is exhausting. It’s because women like you devote a lot of time and energy in maintaining relationships with others. You fulfill so many roles daily, it’s easy for you to lose yourselves in the process. This is a problem that many women like you face today. You lose yourselves in the roles and responsibilities that you fulfill. You constantly give so much of yourself that you easily become emotionally exhausted and burnt-out. You start losing time for yourself, then your self-esteem slowly shrinks.