About Us
Choices Atlanta: Women Balancing Life History
Reflecting on my life’s challenges and difficulties it
was time to give back and to help women who may be struggling with their
life choices. I know that women
today are feeling extreme pressure to have it all: a successful career, a
stimulating marriage, well-adapted children, rewarding friendships, and
more. But what were they basing their decisions on? The
seed was planted that I should start the steps in forming a non-profit
organization that could help women listen to their hearts and determine what
is really important to them, find balance in
their daily lives,
and make decisions that would bring them peace and personal fulfillment.
I invited a group of women to my home after each of us giving a personal
testimony of our lives and asked the question. How could we start an
organization that would make a difference in our culture? Because we have
witnessed an unbalanced life among friends, families and ourselves, our
group talked about the values of women and how the family needs a strong
foundation for a healthy society. We recognize that women have many
challenges in today’s world of materialism especially the
“needs versus wants”. We want to
promote womanhood in all its dimensions, so we decided to do something
about it; we started Choices Atlanta: Women Balancing Life.
Why Choices Atlanta?
Choices Atlanta was created to educate women on their
true dignity and identity as a woman. Our mission is to promote the value of
being a woman, for women to pause
and reflect about the direction they are taking. We present women with the
opportunity to integrate and better fulfill their family, personal, and
professional aspirations and responsibilities, thus achieving true
fulfillment. We are a voice for an integral understanding of womanhood in
all its dimensions. Also, we feel that women are the first transmitters of
values to their children. For
us to understand they are who they are because of their family history and
the choices they have made in their daily lives. Choices Atlanta goal is to
educate women and give emotional support; to encourage each other to reach
out to Choices Atlanta for ideas and advice. The foundation for our
organization is presented in the Guiding Principles to be followed by each
of the core team members.
We all know there are things that make life important faith, family,
friends, education, work and health. Women need reflection, direction and
connection, there are so many mixed messages about who we’re supposed to be
and we all go at such a fast pace that we don’t take the time to really
think about where we want our lives to go, and taking steps to get there.
Choices Atlanta wants women to know they do have a choice. Through a series
of luncheons and workshops we will promote the Seven Priorities of Balance.
Corporate – Community - Charity
Corporate:
Contact different Corporations in Atlanta. Choices Atlanta will provide
well-executed activities, discussions and programs that will educate women
discover solutions to the vast array of issues women face, help them
identify what’s really important in their lives. Our goal is to educate the
women to value themselves and for women to support women.
Community:
Community groups will consist of hospitals, churches, non-profit
organizations, and stay at home moms. To provide coffees and workshops for
moms of young children and give them the understanding how they are valued;
if they stay home/work around their kids/not have it all at the same
time/not to think they have to be perfect. To promote how they can achieve
balance in their lives according to their ideals, and live their priorities
by making good decisions and choices.
Charity:
Through workshops we plan to meet the educational needs of different charity
groups of women. These may be women who have hit a brick wall in their lives
who are in need of options. We want to be the understanding voice for
options, decisions, and choices. Choices Atlanta will reach their hearts not
just their heads; from “doing” and “having” to “being and giving.”
Brenda Tollett – President
