by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | May 14, 2019 | Daughters, Energy Healing, Mothers, Parenting
As published in Energy Healing Magazine, May 2019 Healing is hard work. I know from experience. My daughter started getting hemiplegic migraines at age 11. Besides the aura and horrible pain, she would be paralyzed in half of her body for hours. Western doctors...
by Jackie Acho | May 25, 2016 | Early childhood, Fathers, Motherhood, Mothers, Parental Leave, Parenting, Uncategorized
Mayor Trevor Elkins of Newburgh Heights, Ohio (a small suburb of Cleveland) inspired the most progressive parental leave policy in the country: six-months paid leave for all of the village’s full-time employees, women and men, biological parents and adoptive....
by Jackie Acho | Jul 5, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Empathy, Feminist revolution, Innovation with a soul, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Thank you Indra Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo, for your refreshingly brutal honesty about the tradeoffs between business leadership and parenting. “You know, you have to cope, because you die with guilt. You just die with guilt. My observation is that the...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 14, 2014 | Changemaker, Feminist revolution, Motherhood, Motherly love, Mothers, Rape culture, Women in Leadership
Have you seen the movie? Have you heard the buzz? Maleficent is the dark fairy who casts a spell on Sleeping Beauty. Through this Wicked-like prequel brought to us by Angelina Jolie and Disney, we come to understand the story differently. It’s not a movie for...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 29, 2013 | Fathers, Leadership, Mothers, Women in Science, Work Family Balance
My husband headed out of town this morning. I have important meetings and work to do. I have no backup childcare in place. You’ve been here, right? I bet your cortisol shot up just reading the title. What to do? Plan A: work through it. He’s probably old...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 24, 2013 | Culture, Early childhood, Empathy, Fathers, Feminist revolution, Identity, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
“Successful parenting is a principal key to the mental health of the next generation…In most societies throughout the world these facts have been and still are taken for granted and the societies organized accordingly. Paradoxically, it has taken the world’s richest...
