GRANTED I AM MORE INCLINED than some to notice health, wellness and spirituality magazines on the shelf, but I do notice a surfeit of them lately.
I do not often get my information from a monthly as I prefer to be fed by RSS and search for what I need on-line. Still, I am in the minority as part of my work surrounds the topic. I took a browse through the October issue of Spirituality & Health, because it's one publication I've not really taken the time to look at.
The warrior pose on the cover was pretty and the article titled "Calling on the Power of Women" was all I'd need to read in order to tell a whole lot about this publication.
To my way of thinking, the entire category of health, wellness and spirituality needs to move from a feminist, crunchy and let's be honest.....intimidating feel to a more mainstream and welcoming one. And so I tucked into the article.
YIIIPES! I'm ready to burn my bra and do a million woman march. This article channels all the pro-women personalities that make me wretch. We do ourselves a dis-service when we become uppity and over-zealous. Do women have the ability to be superior negotiators? Hell yes, and I've proven that myself around a board room table. Should more women be heard on the world stage? - of course, as a complement to the male perspective - providing the empathy and compassion sometimes missing from the linear male mind.
They had me, then they lost me. Don't rant women.....men turn a deaf ear. Instead of yet again defining the inequities facing women of the world, talk about how we women can step up and take that power position. Be instructive and constructive about the solutions.
Add to that the the suggestions for inclusion in an "alternative" first-aid kit, such as homeopathic remedies and prayer/poetry snippets and now I'm sort of smirking. "Oh hey....Jimmie's gotten into the entire box of moth balls again, hand me the corn meal salve and a Yanni tune"
I think when it comes to spirituality, a mass magazine won't satisfy. So deeply personal and individual an area will never be something one can turn to a monthly to nourish oneself with. At least in my humble opinion.
I am sure the magazine will appeal to some and there were some nuggets I enjoyed but all in all, I give Spirituality & Health a pass.
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