by Vanessa | Apr 17, 2011 | Adversity Expert, Change Management, lifestyles, Motherhood
Not an ordinary story from a woman who had an arranged marriage at 14 in Texas. Former Texas child bride, Dr. Trevicia Williams will deliver a powerful keynote at Beauty Inside-Out May 5: A celebration of women, balance & success. “Motivation and education are vital to success,” says Dr. Trevicia Williams. It’s also a timely event for awareness since May is the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy month. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, only 40 percent of teenagers who have children before age 18 go on to graduate from high school, compared to 75 percent of teens from similar social and economic backgrounds who do not give birth until ages 20 or 21. Self esteem is a crisis. A Dove study, Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National Report on the State of Self-Esteem, shows 7 in 10 girls believe they are not good enough or do not measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school and relationships with friends and family members. Drawing from her own bounce back experience along with over a decade of academic studies in human behavior, Dr. Trevicia Williams inspires people to think higher while teaching them how to overcome obstacles and become effective. Dr. Williams will take snippets from her tell all book: There are Pearls in the Pain of Every Experience. It’s about currents of faith, hard decisions and perseverance and ways to bounce back from near life shattering experiences. It’s about faith and adversity and use of inner strengths. “I’m amazed when I hear the life stories of young women auditioning for shows like...
by Vanessa | Dec 8, 2010 | Change Management, Motherhood, Parenting, Stress, Women's Health, Work-family Balance, Work-life Balance
Taking steps to reduce stress can greatly improve your quality of life as well as balance across work-life roles. Stress is often described as the result of demands exceeding resources. Stress was once associated with men, the primary financial support of the family, who experienced significant stress balancing the struggle up the corporate ladder with the responsibility of providing for his family. Today, women share this ever-increasing stress-load as the world presents them with multiple opportunities for success and wealth. The way women respond to stressors and the environment they create has the potential for enhancing their competitiveness and success leverage. Peak performance is a benefit of well managed stress. Equally important to women’s work-life balance quest is the need to develop a support system. Not all support systems are created equally though! The key for working women, whether they are entrepreneurs or have a corporate job, is the need to surround themselves with people who will insist that they take time out for themselves. A vital part of a woman’s support system is her social capital. Having loving and supportive friends who are able to not only see that time for self is needed, but gently help by suggesting outlets for balance can be crucial to the success of a work-life balance mission. Dr. Trevicia...
by Vanessa | Dec 2, 2009 | Adversity Expert, Change Management, child bride, Community, Inspiration, lifestyles, Motherhood, Parenting, sex education, Teenage Pregnancy, Women's Health
According to Texas Department of State Health Services, every 10 minutes a teen in Texas gets pregnant, and, every 10 hours, a 14-year-old teen conceives a child. Texas’ former schoolgirl who was in an arranged marriage by the age of fourteen returns to equip teenagers in Dallas. Does sex education work? Texas’ former childbride/teenage mother, Trevicia Williams, Ph.D. (now psychologist), returns to Dallas armed with inspiration and education as she responds to some tough questions about sexuality, tough choices, and higher education beginning at Alley’s House, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering teen mothers in Dallas, Texas, on November 12, 2009. Dr. Trevicia Williams’ extraordinary ordeal as a 14 year old African American girl in an arranged marriage in Houston, Texas to a man 12 years her senior from Germany capacitates her to inspire other young girls and women. She credits her titanium faith, tuff choices, education, and determination for getting her through potentially life pulverizing experiences. “Education helps stimulate awareness, raise living standards, and increases knowledge based choices,” says Dr. Trevicia Williams. Teenage parenting often averts or postpones education for both girls and boys. While 7 out of 10 teen mothers eventually complete high school or receive a GED, they are less likely than girls who delay childbearing to go on to college. There can also be serious consequences for the children of teen mothers. Research sponsored by the Robin Hood Foundation compared children whose mothers were 17 or younger with children whose mothers were 20-21 when they gave birth. The research indicates that children born to teen mothers tend to have: •lower cognitive test scores and more...
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