Personal Empowerment | Tyra Garlington

Choose to focus only on today.

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“No matter what’s happening, you can resourcefully fight the battles of just one day. It’s only when you add the battles of those two mind-bending eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that life gets overwhelmingly intense and complicated. Accept that it’s not the experience of today that holds you back and drives you mad, but the regret and resentment about something that happened yesterday or the fear and dread of what tomorrow might bring, but probably won’t. It’s necessary, then, to let yourself live just one day at a time – just today – just right here, right now. And this same……
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Shout Out to All the “Mean Moms”! Woot Woot!!!

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Are you a Mean Mom? Do you require specifics and details? Do you trust but verify? Do you watch over your child in a way that makes sure wherever they go they’re safe? Do you resist changing your position at a moment’s notice? Do you hold to your beliefs? Have your kids recently called you a Mean Mom? Can I just say that parenting (mothering) is not for the faint of heart? There’s no time to be all in your feelings. The day has started stuff has to be done. People have to be places, little noses have to be……
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It’s okay to be selfish: HAPPY EARLY MOTHER’S DAY!

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“We spend so much of our time taking care of others and focusing on all the things that need to get done. In the midst of it all, it’s easy to forget about ourselves or to let self-care tumble to the bottom of our priority list. It’s easy to convince ourselves that it’s okay to ignore our own needs or “wait until later” (which hardly ever happens). And it’s all too easy to go without the time, care, and compassion that we need. You know how that turns out. One day we realize that not only are we busy, but……
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I owe you this!

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“What Parents Need to Know About 4/20 4/20 Day — the celebration of marijuana that occurs every year on April 20 — gets more popular every year. And while you probably haven’t heard too much about it, your kids likely have. That’s because 4/20 awareness spreads mostly on the sites and apps that attract tweens and teens, such as Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, and other social media. Even mainstream companies including Wingstop, Lyft, Ben & Jerry’s, Denny’s and Burger King use the day to promote their brands not on TV or Facebook (where parents are), but on platforms with a younger following. If you’re looking for evidence of the virality of 4/20 Day,……
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Choose an attitude that moves you forward.

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“The Greek philosopher Epictetus said it perfectly more than 2,000 years ago: “People are disturbed, not by things (that happen to them), but by the principles and opinions which they form concerning (those) things. When we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles and opinions.” In other words, a peaceful and mentally strong person is not someone who’s always in a good situation, but rather someone who always has a good attitude in every situation. Regardless of what you’re going through, it’s about choosing: Will……
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Women’s History Month: You are More Than Who You’ve Become with Sherrell Moore-Tucker

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Women’s History Month: You are More Than Who You’ve Become with Sherrell Moore-Tucker Podcast format of Tyra Garlington’s weekly radio show, Frankly Speaking with Tyra G. Broadcast on Radio Fairfax www.radiofairfax.com Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tyra-garlington/message…
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Choose yourself today.

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

It is what it is. Accept it, learn from it, and grow from it. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done; what truly matters is what you do from here. And what you need to remember right now is that you can’t heal yourself in the same exact environment where you got sick. You need to surround yourself with situations and people that push you to heal and grow. Less drama, less mess. Because the truth is, you won’t always be a priority to others—or to the world’s agenda at large—and that’s why you need to be a priority to yourself. Learn……
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Warning: “Don’t Touch the Blossoms!”

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“The effort to bring cherry blossom trees to Washington, D.C., preceded the official planting by several decades. In 1885, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore returned from her first trip to Japan and approached the U.S. Army Superintendent of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds with the idea of planting cherry trees along the reclaimed waterfront of the Potomac River. Scidmore, who would go on to become the first female board member of the National Geographic Society, was rebuffed, though she would continue proposing the idea to every Superintendent for the next 24 years. Several cherry trees were brought to the region by individuals in this period, including one that was the location of a……
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It’s Women’s History Month: Celebrate “Hidden Figure” and human computer, Katherine Johnson

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Over a decade before Neil Armstrong made “one small step for man,” Katherine Johnson was making giant leaps for all women. Despite the fact that Johnson was the “human computer” behind the calculations that were critical to launching the first American in space, sending the first American man to orbit the Earth, and landing the first human on the moon, her place in history remained largely unrecognized—until now. In 1953 she began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s West Area Computing unit, a group of African American women who manually performed complex mathematical calculations for the program’s engineers. The women, known……
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It’s Women’s History Month: Celebrate Mary Herrera, an Iraq Shero.

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Mary Jessie Herrera is from Somerton, a little town near Yuma, Arizona, not far from the Mexican border. A fourth-generation American, Mary always wanted to go into the military. Mary became a sergeant in the Military Police. She looks as if she weighs maybe 100 pounds dripping wet but does not see herself as petite. “I think of myself as a big person,” she said. “I never thought of myself as a female or Hispanic in the military; I was a soldier, period. I carried my own weight. There was nothing girly about me in the military. I don’t like labels.……
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