Introducing myself and my journal: Discover your core, and nuture it.

About Me:
My friend forwarded me this website and I signed up IMMEDIATELY! I haven't joined anything so quickly in ages. I feel like we are in the midst of an incredible global shift. I feel women are and must be at the forefront of this shift. We are innovators, healers, mothers, sisters, daughters, teachers, and so many things that facilitate and necessitate positive change. We nurture love to the fullest, and it is now crucial that we join together from around the world to hold hands, and help whisk this world back into healthy shape!

I am excited to connect with women from around the world. I am a writer, performer, educator, facilitator, and advocate. Much of my writing, art, and advocacy work focuses on women's issues.
My professional bio is below:

Caroline Rothstein is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and performer who specializes in spoken word poetry, creative nonfiction, and journalism. She was a member of the 2010 Nuyorican Poets Cafe slam team, which placed second at Poetry Slam International’s National Poetry Slam 2010. Caroline is a proud member of the Intangible Collective, and was both a member of and director for the University of Pennsylvania's nationally-acclaimed spoken word poetry organization, The Excelano Project. She was the 2004 and 2006 UPenn Grand Slam Champion, is a five-time College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational finalist, and coached the UPenn slam team to CUPSI championships in 2007 and 2009. Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, Caroline was honored for her work with spoken word on campus with an event in her name at the Kelly Writer's House called “The Caroline Rothstein Annual Oral Poetry Event.”

Caroline has competed, performed, and led workshops at poetry venues, theatres, colleges, universities, high schools, and middle schools around the United States for more than a decade. A longtime activist in eating disorder recovery, she hosts the widely viewed video-blog “Body Empowerment,” sharing her own recovery story as a means to promote positive body image worldwide. As a poet and journalist, Caroline has been published in various literary journals, anthologies, and publications, also self-publishing two books of poetry: This Book Wrote Itself (2009), and What I Learned in College (2006). She has a B.A. in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

My Passions:
Communication, peace, and love.

My Challenges:
Doubt, fear, and focusing too much on the past.

My Vision for the Future:
World peace.

My Areas of Expertise:
Writing, performing, faciltiation, advocacy/activism.