Life-Changing Fun for Women
Dear Needful Soul, It’s hard to remember that we can’t be much good to anyone at all if we don’t take care of ourselves. Even though there may be people all around us who need help, who need assistance, who need advice, who need a hug, who need a friend, who need a clean towel, […]
Dear Seeking Soul, Dreamers are not always treated with kindness and understanding. Visionaries are rarely taken seriously. People who seek for what is good and true are often scoffed, laughed at or shut down. Are you willing to dream your dreams anyway? Are you willing to believe in the vision you have of what you […]
Dear Worthy Soul, When are you going to move yourself to the top of your list? Dear one, we often get stuck on the carousel of excuses. We tell ourselves that we are just entirely too busy to take the best care of ourselves, or to live out our dreams…or to volunteer or have a […]
Dear Spectacular Soul, The world shows us a brand of ‘normal’ that is pretty much unachievable. Be careful what you allow in your life from the media and from what is sold to us as the ideal life, the ideal body, or the ideal relationship. Models are photoshopped and social lives are exaggerated and […]
Dear Merciful Soul, What if…WHAT IF…today was the day you chose to stop blaming yourself for choices you have made…choices you would make differently today knowing what you know and being who you are now. What if today you put your arm around yourself, kissed yourself smack on the cheek and said, “I […]
Dear Exasperated Soul, When things are tough and things are painful and tempers are flaring and hope is a dim little light..there is something that we can do. We can make things better. For ourselves and for everyone around us. No matter what is happening, we can always fly above it to shine the light. […]
Dear Desiring Soul, It is such an enormous gift that we get to choose where we spend our time, who we spend it with and what we spend our time doing. Even if we feel trapped in certain circumstances, we have choices within those circumstances. We are not powerless. Sometimes we think it is the […]
Dear Insightful Soul, You already know the answers to the questions that are eating away at you…you just have to trust yourself enough to really listen and be brave with your decisions. That doesn’t mean it’s always the easiest way to go…but the easiest path never was the most fruitful path….and you are one of […]
Dear Getting-Back-Up Soul, You're going to make some mistakes. You can count on it. You'll fall on your beautiful face. You'll take some wrong turns. You'll do things … [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
