If you love to live your truth, tell your story, feel your pain, express your joy, take what you need, and give what you will – You will love Owning Pink.  This is an amazing online community, that supports, offers guidance, inspiration and ideas.  This is done through posts, workshops, and the Pink Posse forum.  This is a safe place, free of facades.  Owning Pink allows you to reclaim your mojo, and tap into your most authentic you. Owning Pink roars courage to me.

Lissa Rankin created this space for you.  Here is some information about Lissa from her blog – Lissa Rankin is an OB/GYN physician, author of the forthcoming What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) and Encaustic: A Guide To Creating Fine Art With Wax (Random House, 2010), a nationally-represented professional artist, a mother, and founder of Owning Pink, a website and series of workshops committed to building authentic community and empowering women to get their mojo back. She is also a dog walker, a spiritual seeker, a wife, a yogini, a chauffeur, a cook, and a music fanatic. First and foremost, she is a woman, and like many women, she once thought she had to put herself into a box and choose who to be. She now accepts that, while she is all these things, no single identity defines her. She is more than what she does. She strives to be authentic, in all aspects of her life, and she encourages others to do the same.
Lissa practices holistic women’s health at Clear Center of Health in Mill Valley, California. Her nationally-recognized abstract encaustic paintings and sculptures are represented by galleries in San Francisco, Santa Fe, Boston, Atlanta, Laguna Beach, Houston,and Bethesda. She currently resides in Northern California with her husband and fellow artist, Matt Klein, and their daughter, Siena.

Here are some links for you to connect with Lissa, Owning Pink and The Pink Posse:

www.owningpink.com
www.lissarankin.com
www.lissarankinart.com
www.clearcenterofhealth.com
Owning Pink Community: http://www.owningpink.com/forum
Twitter ID: lissarankin
Facebook: Owning Pink http://www.facebook.com/owningpink
Facebook: Lissa Rankin http://www.facebook.com/lissarankin

And introducing The Pink Effect:
www.pinkeffect.ning.com

I hope you visit Lissa and the Pink Posse, you will be thrilled you did.

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage Online

Aye Aye Win won the”Courage in Journalism” award for her job reporting on Burma while under military scrutiny.  This award is annually presented to women in journalism who “show extraordinary strength of character and integrity while reporting news under dangerous or difficult circumstances.”

Aye Aye was under constant surveillance, her house staked out by Burmese authorities and her phones also tapped.  Aye Aye used disguises to move around when needed, and showed a great amount of courage while reporting under very difficult situations.

On Oct 16, 2008  in Los Angeles as well as Oct 21, in New York -  the awards for “Courage in Journalism” will be presented.  Aye Aye Win, along with Fraida Nekzad from Afganistan and Sevjul Uludag from Cyprus will all be presented with this well deserved prize.

Living in Courage Online would like to congratulate these amazing women for their strength of character, their efforts in the strive for freedom and their amazing courage in the face of adversity and challenge.  Thank you for making this world a better place to live and showing the strength of women around the world.

Debra Oakland