Women set day to honor own strengths, needs
Shandra Hill - For the Journal-Constitution
Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Women from across metro Atlanta will gather in Dunwoody on Saturday for
a day of honoring themselves.
The second annual Amazing Woman --- Amazing World Day is scheduled for
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Borders bookstore in Dunwoody. Atlanta is among
30 cities nationwide that have set aside a day in March, Women's History
Month, to encourage women to honor their own strength, courage and
purpose.
Borders Books is the host site in all the cities, which include Boston,
Philadelphia, Dallas and New York.
The day of free events features presentations and book-signings by
Atlanta area women authors. Local authors include Dr. Jill Kahn of
Marietta, "The Gift of Taking Honor Yourself First --- All Else Will
Follow"; Snellville's Lisa Earle McLeod, author of "Forget
Perfect"; and Kristi Lucariello, a self-proclaimed success coach who
is helping organize the local event.
Lucariello will offer women 10 rules for achieving professional
success. "Life coach" Sharon Day of Stone Mountain will discuss
what girls need in order to be prepared for adult life.
Amazing Woman --- Amazing World Day began in 2001 by a California
nonprofit organization, Our Voice Foundation.
Kahn's message to women Honor yourself first so that "there's more
than enough for everybody else," she said.
"We must fill ourselves up first and create the thoughts and
feelings inside of ourselves that create fulfillment. Then we spill that
over naturally," said Kahn, a wife and mother. The 20-year
chiropractor also will talk about how each woman can heal herself
physically or emotionally.
"Everybody's solution is the same," Kahn said.
"Regardless of whether it's a physical illness or an emotional
problem that you're having, the answers are the same. You have to learn
how to take care of yourself. You have to put yourself back in the
driver's seat."
McLeod says women should stop trying to be perfect.
"I think women have put themselves last on their own to-do lists,
and they deserve a lot better than that," said McLeod, a wife and
mother who received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University
of Georgia.
"One of the things I am going to address is how letting go of
'perfect' --- the perfect housekeeping standards, the perfect weight, the
perfect job --- is also giving your daughters permission to do the same.
The examples you're setting for them --- no matter what you've said to
them --- are how they're going to measure themselves someday."
IF YOU WANT TO GO:
Borders Books
Amazing Woman --- Amazing World Day
4745 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody
Information: 770-396-0004
