Life-Changing Fun for Women
Dear Growing Soul, It is so good and wise to take our experiences and extract the helpful wisdom from them. Extract the useful lessons…and then let the rest go. When things go wrong…it doesn’t mean that you are all wrong as human being. When we have bad experiences, it doesn’t mean that we are bad. […]
If you were able to attend a Brave Girl Camp or have been to any other Brave Living retreats and events, this is a warm and familiar image: Music has always run through the veins of Brave Girls Club. From the very first Brave Girl Camp almost 10 years ago, music played a central role […]
Dear Resilient Soul, It can be hard to be awake in this world… especially if we don’t think it’s okay to feel how we feel or to make mistakes or to show up imperfectly or in doubt. So what if we showed up imperfectly? What if we showed up with our human self bleeding inside […]
Dear Steadfast Soul, One of the most powerful things we can do it is to stand in our very own skin and proclaim out loud (even if we are our only audience) what we will and will not allow… what we will and will not believe in… what we will and will not fight for, […]
Dear Beautiful Soul, You know it’s okay to be happy, right? Sometimes we squelch our happiness so that we can stay small. Sometimes we squelch our happiness so that we don’t make others feel bad. Sometimes we squelch our happiness because we feel like we aren’t worthy of it or that we might not really […]
Dear Big-Hearted Soul, You know that phone call you’ve been wanting to make, or that letter you’ve been feeling compelled to write? What are you waiting for? It’s time to give yourself the gift of mending fences, patching up old wrongs, and completely forgiving or asking for forgiveness. This is one of the kindest acts […]
Dearest friends, We have a beautiful announcement to make… so beautiful! We already made this announcement live and had a great party to celebrate last week at Symposium so we wanted to make sure that everyone else knows about this wonderful news too. We hope we can express it with as much excitement and gratitude […]
Dear Lovely Soul, Can you imagine how boring and lifeless and soulless the world would be if we all looked alike? It is a beautiful plan for our world that includes all different kinds of flowers and trees and rocks and different colors of soil…even a different sunset every single night. That’s the way people […]
Dear Healing Soul, Keep trying. Keep at it. Keep believing. Keep showing up. (especially when you don't want to) When it gets tough....give yourself a little break while … [Read More...]
We started Brave Girls Club over six years ago, at a time when all we had was a bunch of wild ideas, a king-sized dream, and an excitement to get to work. We wrote a mission statement that read:
"We are on a wild and crazy mission to find all of the brave women of the world...to help them find each other...then to change the world with good news, good ideas, good people, and good times. "
A little background....Melody was just coming out the other side of several years of heartbreak and loss, the most devastating being the traumatic brain injury suffered by her husband, Marq. She had developed a tremendous compassion for all those who are living with pain and loss and determined to spend the rest of her life helping them and teaching the things she had learned from her own experiences.
Our vision quickly spread to our families (we are sisters), and then to our friends, and girl by girl it has spread by word of mouth literally all over the world. We've been joined by Brave Girls as far away from our little Idaho town as Australia, Africa, Europe, South America and Asia. We have found that no matter where we are from, no matter our backgrounds or ages, we are all so much more alike than we are different. We all want to live joyful, peaceful and brave lives.
We hope you will join us! There's a place for you here.
love,
melody ross and kathy wilkins
YOU WILL FLY AGAIN...A post about finding your wings after you may have thought they were lost forever. Click here to read
WE MUST SEE PAST WHAT IT SEEMS...A commentary about the unknown cruelties we can inflict on each other when we fail to see what is truly going on in each other's lives behind closed doors. Click here to read
A LOVE LETTER TO ARTISTS..A little post to lift up and encourage those who are needing to shut everything else out and let their creations be born. Click here to read
LIFE IS A TREE....A story of tremendous heartbreak turning into everything good and true that it was always meant to become. Click here to read (from Melody's personal blog archives)
AND THEN THERE'S THE FEAR OF BEING AWESOME....A commentary on the crazy fear we have of living up to our own potential. Click here to read
BEING A PERFECTLY IMPERFECT MOTHER ....A commentary on giving each other grace enough to know that we are all doing the very best we can do………and that we all need a hug and a nap and some kindness to keep us going. Click here to read
