I got depressed this week, didn't even do my Wednesday episode. The politics of vaccines, mask fights, people judging each other on whether or not they like Trump or republicans, are the democrats more caring, will doctors really stop treating

[EP:43] The most popular hashtags # is for women? I'm disappointed. - Amber B Skylar

Aug 20th, 2021 30m 8s

When I reached out to my marketing team months ago, I was trying to better understand hashtags. The ones I chose were good, or so I thought. What I have learned when doing research on - what are the most popular hashtags for women - I was blo

[EP:42] Taliban Bullies Fear Educated Women - Amber B Skylar

Aug 18th, 2021 51m 14s

War is going on all over the world and with it comes rape of women and children. Not only do we keep women uneducated in some cultures like the Afghanistan Taliban regime,(Islamic militants) we use them like Mommies to cook, clean, and make t

[EP:41] Hollywood's Influence on Women - Amber B Skylar

Aug 13th, 2021 49m 14s

A good thing about 2021 is that we have more vehicles of communication than ever before. I am 59 now and my entire life I've felt like and been treated like a second class citizen. When you think about this stuff alone, you feel alone, and ma

[EP:40] Forgiveness. I'm just not feeling it. - Amber B Skylar

Aug 11th, 2021 41m 27s

I do not believe that I need to forgive anyone who has hurt, abused, disrected and harmed me in any way. I sometimes think that forgiveness is used as a cop out - for example, trying to get victims to look the other way, like religious leaders

[EP:39] Embrace the Crazy. #Justdoit - Amber B Skylar

Aug 6th, 2021 50m 23s

Nike created an ad campaign called #Dreamcrazier - Just do it inspired by the treatment of female athletes who get emotional. I'm so tired of being told that I am "dramatic" because I express emotion. Not just by men, but by scared, compliant

[EP:38] Get involved. Fight back. Take a stand- Amber B Skylar

Aug 4th, 2021 43m 10s

Predators seek out vulnerability. Society starts training females at a young age to be sweet, feminine, naive and charming. We are trained that we are not strong enough to hear truth about whats going on with violence against women. We are n

[EP:37] The Good Girl - Amber B Skylar

Jul 30th, 2021 45m 11s

For a very long time now, females have learned that one of the ways to survive or to achieve more success, they had to be "good". What does that mean exactly? Maybe it helped generations of women in the past, in terms of survival, but will it

[EP:36] I'm "not" sorry - Amber B Skylar

Jul 28th, 2021 47m 37s

I'm tired of apologizing for things that I do not need to apologize for. Women have a tendency to quickly apologize for too many things. I realize after doing this podcast that I have been apologizing my entire life for just being female. Ev

[EP:35] Acceptance. My current coping mechanism. - Amber B Skylar

Jul 23rd, 2021 57m 38s

I've had the hardest time actually accepting that I am disabled from Chronic Post Traumatic Stress. When I hear words like "mental illness" even though I know its not an illness, I have cringed over the years of my growth, telling myself I was

[EP:34] Happiness, Addiction and Coping Mechanisms - Amber B Skylar

Jul 21st, 2021 1h 3m

I cannot wrap my mind around the sale of happiness. It's everywhere. It's in our constitution - the pursuit of happiness. What is striking to me, is that we do not sell or market/promote our right to feel safe, to face our emotional pain with

[EP:33] Call for stories - Amber B Skylar

Jul 16th, 2021 54m 1s

In the fall/winter 2022, I will be organizing a few events, perhaps a live call in event, and introducing 2-4 guests per month. I aspire to have a few series on Women and Religion, Religion and Sexual Violence, different types of trauma, like

[EP:32] Stop Blaming and Start Claiming - Amber B Skylar

Jul 14th, 2021 58m 29s

As angry, depressed, triggered as I am, I feel it is vital, essential that victims rise up and claim their life back. How? Your voice. Your written and spoken word. Your actions in going after your abuser or attacker. Calling the police, fi

[EP:31] From PTSD to PTSG (Growth) - Amber B Skylar

Jul 9th, 2021 48m 11s

I heard this term PTSG from a friend. It's a term used for positive experiences associated with growing from PTSD. This episode will discuss my growth and how podcasting, writing, speaking helps me move forward (not pain free) as I live and e

[EP:30] Why am I doing this Podcast? - Amber B Skylar

Jul 7th, 2021 53m 58s

I've mentioned several times that I would talk about my choice to podcast and what motivates me to be so open. Im just tired of holding in all of the thoughts and emotions I have, as a mature women, determined to add my voice to the women's mo

[EP:29] I am a feminist. - Amber B Skylar

Jul 2nd, 2021 1h 4m

I've been confused about feminism most of my life. Fear of rejection, judgment, retaliation. Fear of being left out. Fear of being harassed, hurt, stalked. Now after researching and learning about the powerful women before me who stood - alo

[EP:28] Slut Shaming - Amber B Skylar

Jun 30th, 2021 1h

I'm all over the map on this topic. On one hand I know that females are not raped because of their clothing even though historically we tried to make the victims responsible because of what they were wearing. It was (and sometimes still is) a

[EP:27] A Mouthpiece for Women - Amber B Skylar

Jun 25th, 2021 59m 26s

Did you know that in the 18th century, we used to put a hinged iron framework around a woman's head which gaged her into submission and silence? It was used to publicly humiliate her and to teach other women to keep their mouth shut. Is this ha

[EP:26] The Dark Side of Yoga - Amber B Skylar

Jun 23rd, 2021 59m 29s

It's important to keep your eyes wide open, in anything really. Yoga is just one activity that is easy to target people because of our romanticization of how things are done in the East. Most people believe yoga came from India. It did not.

[EP:25] Is love really the answer, or? - Amber B Skylar

Jun 18th, 2021 56m 12s

We hear so often, that "love is the answer" and yet with the human capacity to love we still live in a violent world. How many times have you felt like you were "in love"? How many times have people told you that you have no choice in who yo

[EP:24] Marriage. I married myself. - Amber B Skylar

Jun 16th, 2021 57m 35s

Times have changed but "romance" is still in its infancy. Laws have changed but some states still hold to the religious ideals about marriage and how it's supposed to look instead of how it actually is. Men still blame women and women still bl

[EP:23] Gaslighting! When people try to make you sound crazy. - Amber B Skylar

Jun 11th, 2021 58m 1s

Have you ever felt you were being manipulated but did not listen to yourself? Have you ever felt like you were paranoid or crazy because you have a gut feeling, intuition, an inkling that something is off and you can't quite sort it out. Year

[EP:22] Do you ever have premonitions, dejavu? - Amber B Skylar

Jun 9th, 2021 1h

Have you noticed that when women have supernatural experiences we mock them. But a man named "Moses" for example can climb a mountain, have a supernatural experience and bam - he's an angel of God. Women have strong intuition, premonitions, d

[EP:21] Designed to cry. It's intelligent actually - Amber B Skylar

Jun 4th, 2021 56m 55s

We really like to judge people when they cry. We stuff the emotion and it is stored on our body systems. No joke. In 2008 Rose -Lynn Fisher started a project to look at the molecular structure of tears and made a huge discovery. How long have w

[EP:20] Confrontation, Fight or Flee- Amber B Skylar

Jun 2nd, 2021 59m 6s

I have strong personality. Being assertive and female has its own set of rules, even today. Yes, its changing as more women get into leadership roles and our environments still have engrained messages in our social landscape that attack our