The Enchanted Self is all about helping women and girls come into their own, resilient and with great self esteem, in every aspect of life. I’m so excited as there has never been a moment in our country where women have stood this close to every threshold imaginable for women. The glass ceiling is disappearing in every aspect of work from being a senator to running a farm or a large factory or any other job a woman desires. In fact this is the moment my own dad talked to me about when I was 6. He came into my bedroom where I was playing with a toy firehouse that he had assembled for me and said ‘I want you to know that you can grow up and become whoever you want to be, even the president of the United States. It will happen when you are alive. I never forgot that moment.
So here we are women and girls. We have the vote, that’s a given and soon we may have the White House. So what does that mean for us? How do we women and girls develop ourselves so that we can be the best we can be in terms of potential being utilized? How do we get there? That’s where the Enchanted Self can be so helpful. The Enchanted Self can help by helping you recognise your talents, interests and your untapped potential. Try this today. Take a piece of paper and fold it in three parts. On one list your interests. On the next list your talents, all the way back to childhood. On the third list what you think is your real potential in life. What is your special blueprint to bring to the world? Put the paper in your purse and look at it daily for a week. Keep adding more as thoughts come up. At the end of the week look at your lists. Now think about how you, in this amazing world we are in,where a woman can become President, how can you utilize your potential? What can you achieve over the next few years? What help do you need?
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, internationally known Positive Psychologist is the creator of The Enchanted Self ®, a positive psychology method for happiness and a pioneer in Selfies as Film. Dr. Holstein’s Enchanted Self website was included as one of the best websites in positive psychology. She is in private practice in Long Branch, New Jersey with her husband, Dr. Russell M. Holstein.
Dr. Barbara can be found on the web, interviewed, writing articles and posting video ‘TED’ style talks on Happiness, Positive Psychology, Relationships and Parenting. Her Roku channel is: The Enchanted Self Presents.
She has been a contributor to Your Tango, Heart and Soul, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Honey Good, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Redbook, Real Simple, Women’s World, The Wall Street Journal, Psychcentral.com, Time online, Readers Digest, Parade, the Today Show and Family Circle Magazine.
