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Transforming challenging life circumstances into positive growth and change is what this volume is meant to celebrate and hopes to inspire. The women published here responded to a call for essay submittals for the 2011 Challenge into Change Essay Contest sponsored by The Woman's Initiative. The agency's first Executive Director, Kerry Day, started the contest as a way to celebrate our first year of inception in 2007. As Kerry says at the inaug...

Challenge into Change is a forum for real-life stories about women overcoming personal struggles. In the fall of 2016, The Women's Initiative invited Central Virginians to submit a poem or essay of 500 words or less about a woman (themselves or someone they knew) who had surmounted a difficult situation in her life. Eighty-six writers responded to our call. This is their book. Challenge into Change began in 2008 as a celebration of The Women's...

Transforming challenging life circumstances into positive growth and change is what this volume is meant to celebrate and hopes to inspire. This book shares a selection of inspirational essays (and poems) written by women who entered the 2013 Challenge into Change Essay Contest. Together, they explored such themes as: physical and mental abuse, mental illness, depression, disability, discrimination, violence, poverty, abandonment, job loss, st...

This book is a chorus of voices raised to honor women who have triumphed against seemingly insurmountable odds with grace, clarity and spirit. Using powerful poetry and prose, the authors explore universal motifs such as grief, loss, body image, and parenting. Furthermore, they shed light on themes that often go unexamined outside of the privacy of our minds, hearts and homes: domestic violence, mental illness, poverty, abuse, and neglect. In ...