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Kelly Rudolph - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Kelly Rudolph, "Your Personal Safety Trainer," Host of TeleWomenars and creator of Positive Women Rock survived rape and domestic violence prior to training extensively to create SURVIVE! Self-Defense LLC in 1999, to teach men, women, teens and kids how to avoid verbal, mental, emotional and physical attack.
Realizing safety has much more to do with self-esteem than self-defense, she delivers empowering TeleWomenars (positive TeleSeminars for women) and created PositiveWomenRock.com – a community of women ... [More]
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- Positive Women - Being in the Moment - How to Become More Positive
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Many women multitask to accomplish what they need to each day. To be a positive woman and enjoy greater success at everything you do, it is crucial to practice being in the moment. Though multitasking has its place, read on to learn some simple ways to appreciate more, create better health and savor the best times by being in the moment.
- Positive Women - Why Walking Away is Strong, Instead of Weak - How to Be a Positive Woman
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Most people view walking away from a confrontation or challenge as weak but positive women know walking away is a sign of strength. Whether you are already or about to be involved in a bad situation, argument, or other confrontation, it is important to know you have options that keep you in integrity and come from strength rather than weakness.
- Positive Women - Personal Boundaries Are Vital For Positive Women
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] If you've ever experienced someone "getting in your space" or "stepping over the line," you will benefit from reading this article on personal boundaries. Positive women know the importance of boundaries and can share these simple steps with those they care about as well.
- Positive Women Friends - What Do You Bring to the Table? 5 Qualities of Good Female Friends
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Women friendships are important and they must be mutually beneficial to be positive relationships. When they are, positive women friendships are some of the strongest bonds in the world. Determine what you bring to the table and learn 5 qualities to make you a great friend for other women.
- Positive Women - When You Feel Like Complaining, Do This Instead - How to Become a Positive Woman
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Complaining is trap that is easy to fall into and weakens us mentally, emotionally and physically. Read this article to learn the quickest and best way to avoid and transform complaining into feeling better, doing better and becoming and remaining a positive woman.
- Positive Women - 3 Reasons Why Positive Women Excel at Everything
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Positive minded women excel at everything they do because they see the world, their lives and all situations and challenges from a positive "glass half full" perspective. Everything is happier and easier for them to handle, which positively impacts their entire life and everyone in it.
- Positive Women - How Well Do You Accept Compliments? - Becoming a Positive Woman
[Womens-Interests] Did you pay someone a compliment today? That always makes you feel good and it brightens the other person's day as well, or does it? How did the other person receive the compliment? Did they allow you to feel good for giving it or inspire you to defend it by brushing it off?
- Positive Women - How a Positive Woman Transforms a Bad Day Into a Good Day
[Womens-Interests] There is still hope to transform a bad day into a good one if you are a positive woman and keep your chin up. Read on for some tips to recreate your day even if the clock says it's over.
- Personal Safety Training - Why Do Attackers Use More Common Sense to Attack Than We Do to Prevent?
[News-and-Society:Crime] Attackers use common sense when attacking or they end up in the news and on the internet as jokes. Survivors of needless attacks often land on the news as subjects of sympathy when they didn't use any common sense to avoid the attack.
- Women's Personal Safety Secret - Do You Know What Happens to "Poor Me" People?
[Womens-Interests] We've all known people with the "poor me" attitude but do we really recognize how dangerous that victim mentality is? Read on to find out the ramifications of this oh-so-common, attention-getting mindset.
- Family Safety Training - 5 Tips to Keep Your Child From Sharing Too Much Private Family Information
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] We want our children to know important information in case of an emergency but it they tell it to the wrong person, it can easily put your entire family in the Danger Zone! Read on for tips on how to keep your child knowledgeable and your family safe at the same time.
- Family Safety Training - Please Talk to Strangers - Vital Safety Tip to Keep Your Children Safe
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Have you been teaching your children not to talk to strangers? If so, would you like a much more effective way to teach them about safety? The first thing to do is encourage them to talk to strangers! Read on to find out how this may save your child's life.
- Women's Safety Secrets - Common Sense and Gut Feelings - Your Knights in Shining Armor
[Womens-Interests] Wouldn't it be great to know you've already found your Knight In Shining Armor? Someone to protect you and keep you safe? Good news! You have the very things you may have been searching for and they are easy to access and vital to your happiness and safety. Read on to find out the simple way to put them to use...
- Women's Personal Safety Secret - Your Body Came With Built-In Weapons in Case of Physical Attack
[Womens-Interests] There are a variety of personal protection devices available for defense against physical attackers. Most offer nothing more than a false sense of security that ultimately puts the owner in greater danger. Read this article to learn about the best weapons you have that built-in to your body so that you can avoid dangerous situations if at all possible...
- Women's Personal Safety Secret - Physical Attack - Fight Or Flight, Or Hug? Vital Safety Secret
[Womens-Interests] Women are often unlikely to be willing to hurt someone even if they are being physically attacked. What about hugging the attacker? It is a rarely addressed, often effective tactic, which can prevent further physical attack in many cases. Read this article to see how women can put this seemingly nurturing strategy into their arsenal of personal safety secrets that may save their life!
- Safety Tips For Women - Emotional Stress Puts Women in Greater Physical Danger - 5 Tips to Help
[Womens-Interests] Is emotional stress from the current economic challenges getting you down? If so, you are putting yourself in greater danger for physical attack, not to speak of verbal, mental and emotional attacks. Read this article to learn 5 simple facts and tips to help you to be safer and positively impact those you care about.
- Women's Safety Tips - The Most Important Word to Delete When Teaching Kids & Teens About Safety
[Womens-Interests] As women, we are often responsible for teaching kids and teens about personal safety and there is one word that must deleted from our vocabulary to do it effectively. This one word has been used so often it is a habit for most of us; a habit that doesn't mean anything and doesn't even absorb into the subconscious mind, which is why it gets people killed every day. Read this article to learn the word and the alternative.
- Women's Personal Safety Tips - The ABC's of Repelling Attackers - Safety For Women & Those They Love
[Womens-Interests] We all learned our ABC's in school but we learned very little about safety and how to repel attackers. In fact, most of our safety training was about what not to do, which put us in greater danger. Who needs to know what not to do, what doesn't work? Read this article for a better way to learn about safety and how to repel attackers...the way that "sticks!"
- Women's Personal Safety Tip - What to Teach Your Kids & Teens to Keep Them Safe
[Womens-Interests] As women, we are usually the "safety monitors" for our families and teaching kids and teens about safety is easier than you might think. If you would like a few simple tips for your family and your own peace of mind, read this article.
- Women's Personal Safety - How to Avoid the Toxic Friend For Safety's Sake - A Safety Tip For Women
[Womens-Interests] We've all had toxic friends and chances are we still have one or two hanging around so tips to survive the attack of the toxic friend are vital to your self-esteem. And your self-esteem is vital to your personal safety, which includes your mental, emotional and physical well-being. Read this article to find out how to identify and eliminate toxic friendships.
- Women's Safety Secrets - "He Got in My Space" - Enforcing Personal Boundaries For Safety
[Womens-Interests] Now that you've taken on some responsibility for the "He got in my space" situation by reading my previous article and establishing personal boundaries, lets talk about enforcement of those boundaries. There are truly benefits to knowing what is acceptable and unacceptable to you even if you have yet to tackle enforcement because clarity is key and gives you the motivation to move to the next step.
- Women's Safety Secrets - "He Got in My Space" - Establishing Personal Boundaries For Safety
[Womens-Interests] We've all heard someone say, "He got in my space," right? Well, do we ever talk about what lead up to that? I don't mean the creepy male coworker walked right into your cubicle before making a rude comment, I mean what did you do that showed him that was okay in the first place?
- Women's Personal Safety - Are You Making These Mistakes? - Safety For Women
[Womens-Interests] Women are inherently more vulnerable to verbal, mental, emotional and physical attack just based on gender alone. Read this article to find out 3 of the most common mistakes we make in our personal safety and how to avoid them...
- Women's Safety Secrets - Delete Toxic Friendships For Safety's Sake - Personal Safety For Women
[Womens-Interests] Are you tired of that certain friend dumping her toxic emotional waste on you? Do you ever notice how happy she is once she gets it all out and how lousy you feel afterward? She's usually ready to go have fun in a few minutes while you feel like you just crashed into a wall.
- Women's Safety Tip - Real Life Story - Who is Responsible For Your Safety?
[Womens-Interests] Women often hand the responsibility of their personal safety over to someone else, becoming vulnerable and less powerful in all aspects of their lives. Read this article (with a real life example) to learn how to protect yourself and keep your power.
- Women's Safety Secrets - Is Your Personality Style Putting You in Danger? - Safety Tip For Women
[Womens-Interests] Do you ever wonder why people interpret things so differently from you? Or why you can say something in simple terms and the person you're speaking to may not understand? Have you wondered why some people end up as victims and others don't? If so, you will love this simple yet amazing information that explains it all...and a lot of other things you've wondered about as well!
- Women's Personal Safety Secrets - Understand the Attacker Mindset, The #1 Personal Safety Secret
[Womens-Interests] As women, we tend to be more nurturing by nature. We want to help people and we want to think the best of everyone. But it is imperative to determine who is safe and who is not very quickly to stay safe in today's society. I've simplified one of the most vital and misunderstood aspects of personal safety for women, kids, teens and men.
- Women's Safety Tips - Repel Or Attract Attackers, the Choice is Yours
[Womens-Interests] Do you know the one thing that can both attract good people to you and repel bad ones? This is very important with regard to personal safety and just think how valuable it can be in relationships and business. Read this article to learn what that one thing is.
- Women's Safety Tips - What's in Your Wallet?
[Womens-Interests] Do you know what you would lose if a thief stole your wallet right now? Read this article for simple safety tips to prevent yourself from being a target for crime and attackers.
- Women's Safety Tips - 3 Common Mistakes Women Make About Personal Safety
[Womens-Interests] Women are often selected as crime targets because they are viewed as "weak" by cowardly attackers. Read this article to learn the 3 most common mistakes that make us look vulnerable and the solutions to make you look strong...even on a bad day.
- Women's Personal Safety Secrets - Self-Esteem Plays a Huge Role in Personal Safety For Women
[Womens-Interests] All women can be safer when they understand how vital a role self-esteem plays in making choices and decisions. Read this article to learn some simple tips and tricks to simplify decision making that could save your life.
- Women's Safety Tips - Purse Size Matters in Personal Safety For Women
[Womens-Interests] Women need to be aware of what the size of their purse tells would-be criminals. Read this article and learn how to be trendy as well as safe from creeps and criminals.
- Women's Safety Tips - Vehicle Maintenance Safety Tips For Women
[Womens-Interests] Women have heard horror stories about being ripped off at the vehicle maintenance shop because they don't know as much about vehicles as men do. Since a woman's personal safety has a lot to do with the health of her vehicle, this article covers some basics to offer peace of mind and enough knowledge to prevent many negative vehicle experiences.
- Women's Personal Safety Secrets - Personal Boundaries, the #4 Personal Safety Secret For Women
[Womens-Interests] Women absolutely must know how to establish personal boundaries and when to enforce them. Benefits include greater self-esteem, increased confidence, peace of mind, respect from self and others and greatly increased personal safety. Read this article to learn how to simply and effectively establish and enforce personal boundaries for your safer future.
- Women's Personal Safety Secrets - Confident Body Language, the #2 Personal Safety Secret
[Womens-Interests] Women need to develop Confident Body Language into a habit. Because speaking this language can save your life. Becoming careless just for a minute or two can cost your life. Read this article to learn how to make your confident body language a habit.
- Women's Personal Safety Secrets - Trust Your Gut Feelings - The #5 Personal Safety Secret For Women
[Womens-Interests] Women use intuition to make decisions even without any background support information. They just "know" what choice to make. Intuition is also called gut feelings and acknowledging them, reading them and following them is critical to a woman's safety and that of her loved ones. Read this article to learn how to use the survival instincts you were born with to live safer, happier and with more peace of mind and less stress.
- Women's Safety Tips - Economy Downturn Equals Crime Increase - 3 Simple Ways Women Can Be Safer
[Womens-Interests] Economic challenges promote increased crime and violence. Just as someone is trying to survive or feed their family by taking something that belongs to someone else, that someone else is holding onto it for the same reason and that could cost them their life. Read this article to get 3 simple safety tips to practice and share.
- Women's Safety Tip - What Are Your Child's Gut Feelings Telling You and Are You Listening?
[Womens-Interests] Your child's gut feelings are vital to their personal safety. Are you paying attention to them? Read this article to learn why children are better judges of character than adults might ever be and how your entire family can be safer from attackers just by listening to your child and get tips on nurturing your child's gut feelings and self-esteem.
- Women's Personal Safety Secrets - Your Voice is Your #1 Weapon - Your #3 Personal Safety Secret
[Womens-Interests] Women need to know the correct way to use their voices in dangerous situations. Your voice is your #1 weapon. The power and empowerment felt from learning to use your voice correctly for your safety can instantly change your body language to show that you are not a good victim prospect!
- Women's Safety Secrets - The Secret to Personal Safety For Women
[Womens-Interests] Personal safety secrets are the keys to women's personal safety and that of their loved ones. Simple safety concepts and tips and tricks to avoid rape, bullies, assault, creeps and criminals. Reading this article may very well save a life.
- Women's Safety Tip - Real Life Story - Do You Have a Teen With Too Much Responsibility?
[Womens-Interests] We want our teens to take responsibility but as a parent, we must realize that employers may give teens too much responsibility, putting them in danger. Read this real-life story of a teen who was given too much responsibility at work and it put her in a position to be abducted, sexually assaulted and beaten.
- Women's Safety Tip - Real Life Story - The Anatomy of a Bully
[Womens-Interests] Bullies are in our families, schools, workplaces and public places but although we generally put up with their behavior, do we realize the negative impact it makes or what a bully really is? Read this article to see how the real-life story of one bully impacted a formerly peaceful neighborhood.
- Women's Safety Tips - True Story - Creep Or Gentleman - Important Safety Tip For Women
[Womens-Interests] He keeps telling me he's a gentleman so why do I still get an icky feeling when I'm around him? Men who must verbalize their gentlemanship instead of proving it are creeps, not gentlemen. Read this article to learn their tactics and how to see right through them!
- Women's Safety Tips - Dating Nightmares & Personal Boundaries - Safe Dating Tips For Women
[Womens-Interests] Personal boundaries and the enforcement of them can save you many tears, hurt feelings and protect your self-esteem. Dating should be fun, not hurtful. Read this article to find out how to change your dating life for the better immediately.
- Women's Safety Tips - Dating Nightmares & Gut Feelings - Safe Dating Tips For Women
[Womens-Interests] Want to know how to pick the right, safe guy and avoid dating nightmares? Read this article to learn how fine tune your gut feelings.
- Women's Safety Tips - Dating Nightmares & Self-Esteem - Safe Dating Tips For Women
[Womens-Interests] Dating nightmares are common and take a toll on our self-esteem. They are also easily prevented with three simple steps. Read this article to learn how to prevent your next dating experience from becoming another dating nightmare!
- Women's Safety Tips - Dating Nightmares and How to Avoid Them - Safe Dating Tips For Women
[Womens-Interests] Dating nightmares leave scars and although they may not be physical, they do affect the rest of your life! Read this article to learn safety tips about how women can date the right men every time.
- Women - Rape Survivor Safety Tips - Did You Know Rape Victims Are Likely to Be Attacked Again?
[Womens-Interests] It is unfortunately common for rape victims to be attacked again by someone else within two years. The reason for this is simple, therefore simple to prevent though simple does not necessarily mean easy. Read this article to learn how to be 95% safer from creeps and criminals.
- Women's Safety Tip - How to Teach Your Kids About Safety - Important Safety Tip For Women
[Womens-Interests] Many child safety programs inadvertently teach kids the opposite of what they want them to learn and then wonder why the kids do what they do. Women, moms, aunts, grandmothers, sisters, girlfriends, listen up! I'm going to share with you the most important child safety tip you will ever learn.
- Women's Safety Tip - How to Recover From Rape - Important Safety Tip For Women
[Womens-Interests] There are as many opinions on how to recover from rape as there are books, services, articles and blog posts on the subject. I choose to share mine with you because I've seen and read much from jaded, negative, cynical "victims" who are still living as victims. Your following their advice can only lead you to live as a victim yourself.
- Women's Safety Tip - Who is Your Babysitter, REALLY? - 7 Babysitter Selection Tips For Women
[Womens-Interests] Recently, a babysitter turned over his charges to pedophiles. Read this article to for 7 tips to choosing the right babysitter for your children.
- Women's Safety Tip - The Valentine's Date, Romance Or Danger? - Valentine's Safety Tip For Women
[Womens-Interests] Valentine's Day can be physically, mentally and emotionally dangerous for the desperate single gal seeking a date so as not to be alone on this "couple's holiday." Let's take a closer look at ways to avoid getting "sucked in" by the hype.
- Women's Safety Tips - The Most Important Question For a Woman's Personal Safety
[Womens-Interests] We find ourselves in unexpected, sometimes dangerous, situations and oftentimes the best way to handle it comes to mind after it's over. But is there one simple question to ask ourselves that gives us the proper way to handle everything while it is happening? Yes.
- Women's Safety Tips - January is National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month - Safer 2009
[Womens-Interests] The term "self-defense" is anything but warm and fuzzy though vital to know something about, even if it's only a little something. Amazingly enough, just knowing a little something can literally save your life or that of a loved one. This topic is extremely important for women because we tend to be the safety advocates for our families, friends and workplaces.
- Women's Safety Tips - Holiday Safety Secrets
[Womens-Interests] The holidays can be stressful, emotional and dangerous as they are attackers' favorite time of year. Read this article to learn ways to protect yourself from verbal, mental, emotional and physical attack in order to have more joy and peace of mind this holiday season.
- Women's Safety Tips - How to Repel Instead of Attract Attackers - Tip #2 - Healthy Self-Esteem
[Womens-Interests] Healthy self-esteem would have prevented me entering into situations that ultimately resulted in date rape and domestic violence. Most us are unaware of the connection between self-esteem and victimization or think low self-esteem is a result of victimization not the other way around. Read this article to learn simple ways you can repel attackers...
- Women's Safety Tips - How to Repel Instead of Attract Attackers - Tip #1 - Make Noise
[Womens-Interests] As women, when we think of having to defend themselves against an attacker, we often think of physical techniques we don't know how to do and needing strength we don't have. Let us put away the "don'ts" and talk about the "dos." Read this article to one simple way to repel attackers.
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