Life-Changing Fun for Women
Dear Feeling Forgotten Soul, Please listen close, friend, Okay? Whether you were lavished with flowers today or whether you spent the day alone…you are good. You are so so so very good. It is hard to live in a world that is full of measuring sticks of all kinds. It is hard to know whether […]
Dear Moving-Forward Girl, Sometimes things happen in life that are very unfair and very painful…things that make us want to drop everything and tell our side of the story. We want to shout from the rooftops about what happened and how it got portrayed unfairly. Friend, please do the math and decide whether it is […]
Dear Needed Soul, You might sometimes forget the truth of who you really are. You might step back into the muck that has pulled you in and feel that old feeling of yucky inadequacy that has kept you stuck so many times. Remember that those icky feelings do not come from a place of truth. […]
Dear Weary Soul, Why do we insist on holding on to so much stuff that weighs us down? Why do we drag around old grudges, regrets, outdated dreams… crummy beliefs about ourselves…even ratty old clothes…all things that make us feel bad… but that we hold onto. Wouldn’t today be a great day to let some […]
Dear Insightful Soul, When you feel stuck in situations or relationships that feel all wrong, look for what is right. When you are faced with a difficult human being, one of the most beautiful and light-filled things you can do is to go to the ends of the earth to look for what is beautiful […]
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 Wonderful Soul, It may look sometimes like everyone else has it all together, has the perfect life, has all of the answers and that everything comes easily to … [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
