In Speaking Your Truth you'll find 43 individual stories written by women for women. Their stories provide inspiration and heartfelt truths, some of which have never been shared before. Self-Discovery, Family Matters, Surviving to Thriving, Grief and Loss, Finding Your Path, and Faith and Spirituality are the topics covering Volume II of Speaking Your Truth."Speaking Your Truth provides a profound glimpse into the extraordinary internal lives of ordinary women we interact with every day. This book provides a compelling look into the heart of what it means to be human and opens up a new level of compassion for and interest in those around us. Not only do we recognize ourselves in these stories, but we learn to acknowledge the insightful and inspirational power of life living in every human being." Jesi-Grace Dobosz, clairvoyant healer and owner of Energetic Creations Life Coaching"Each story in this collection is a gem sparkling with truth and authenticity. Together, they comprise a kaleidoscope of inspiration that opens the heart and touches the spirit."Ashley Davis Bush, author of Shortcuts to Inner Peace and Transcending Loss"Real women sharing real issues offering REAL solutions that are both powerful and practical. A touching and inspiring must-read for any woman on the path to personal empowerment!"Debra Gano, CEO of BYOU "Be Your Own You," award-winning author of the Heartlight Girls series, and women's/girls' self-esteem expert"Reading Speaking Your Truth feels like each story is one told by a close friend. The book depicts the fragility of life and how our inner strength, faith and courage enable us to overcome all obstacles and help others do the same. Truly inspirational!" Becky Gl�ck is a daughter, a sister, a friend and an import manager"A brave and enlightening work that should be required reading for everyone. Each contributor has an important story to tell and does so with courage, honesty, and hope." Alice J. Wisler, author of Rain Song, How Sweet It Is, Hatteras Girl, A Wedding Invitation, and instructor at Writing the Heartache Workshops

Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.

Women are fierce and fed-up, and they have been joining hands together for the purposes of societal change for as long as there has been injustice. Women of faith are guided by the Holy Spirit to work together to bring down these injustices, to build on the foundation Christ laid for the beloved community of God on earth. This book is women joining together to speak and act in new ways in response to the increasing challenges of our day. This book offers to all women the sustenance needed to face blatant racism, bigotry, sexism, heterosexism, and xenophobia in the world and in the church. The writers of Speaking Truth greet these challenges knowing that the Good News of Jesus Christ is bigger than any societal ill and that God has called us to play a part in God’s work of transformation. When we pray together and act together, we claim a new vision for how things can be - a vision God gives us through Scripture. We can support both ourselves and other women as we learn to find and claim our voices and end the silences imposed upon us. Speaking Truth: • Provides inspirational writings by women for women to face the societal challenges specific to today. • Includes prayers, devotions, scriptures, and inspirational quotes for special challenges. • Encourages women supporting, advocating, and praying for other women.

Contains primary source material.

“A powerful book on an important topic. Speak Up helps us understand the subtle elements that contribute to our holding back valuable ideas and observations. Their TRUTH framework – which is as practical as it is rigorous – identifies essential elements to help individuals find their voice. “ Amy Edmondson, Professor, Harvard Business School, Author, The Fearless Organization (Wiley, 2019) What you say or don’t say in a conversation can have life-defining consequences on ourselves and those around us. Speak Up helps you to navigate power differences so you can speak up with confidence and enable others to find their voice in a way that will be heard. Our day-to-day conversations define how we see ourselves and how we’re seen. The choices we make about what to say and who to say it to are decisive factors in whether we get promoted, or side-lined. Whether we steer clear of trouble, or find ourselves in it up to our necks. With daily scandals hitting the headlines and the continuous need to innovate to survive, creating a more honest, open, fulfilling and productive workplace has never been more pressing. Our conversational choices harness the ideas and intelligence of the people we work with, or result in that revolutionary concept never seeing the light of day. They make us feel proud or ashamed of ourselves for what we have or have not said. They cause us to flourish and feel motivated, or result in us feeling dissatisfied and resentful. Speak Up helps you to navigate power differences and speak up with confidence in a way that you will be heard. But it’s no good speaking up if there isn’t anyone listening so we also help you to understand how your power enables others to speak up and how it might silence them.

"Speaking the Truth about Oneself is composed of lectures that acclaimed French philosopher Michel Foucault delivered in 1982 at the University of Toronto. As is characteristic of his later work, he is concerned here with the care and cultivation of the self, which becomes the central theme of the second and third volumes of his famous History of Sexuality, published in French in 1984, the month of his death, and which are explored here in a striking and typically illuminating fashion. Throughout his career, Foucault had always been interested in the question of how constellations of knowledge and power produce and constitute subjects. But in the last phase of his life, he became especially interested not only in how subjects are constituted by outside forces but in how they constitute themselves. In this lecture series and accompanying seminar, we find Foucault focused on antiquity, starting with classical Greece, the early Roman dynasties, and concluding with fourth- and fifth-century Christian monasticism. Foucault's claim is that, in these periods, we see the development of a new kind of act-"speaking the truth" (about oneself)-as the locus of a new form of subjectivity, which he deemed important not just for historical reasons but also as something modernity could harness anew or adapt to its own purposes"--