About Lee Davis
Lee Davis, Professionally Speaking.....
Lee Davis has been providing support to women since 1986. She began in Houston, Texas, where she presented classes, lectures, support groups, workshops, and counseling/coaching that gave hundreds of women the opportunity to learn new tools that would aid them in their personal growth and development.
Lee was Co-Founder of The Center for Human Development in River Oaks, has been speaker at Houston International Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Baywood Hospital (6-hour lecture on The Dynamics of Abuse, Sexual Abuse and Incest), CPC Cypress Point Hospital (26-week class on Building Self-Esteem) as well as speaker at the AA (Alcohol Anonymous) Conference.
She presented to the downtown Houston YMCA daycare staff a lecture on Boundaries and to HISD teachers a presentation on Self-Esteem Matters (how to be instrumental in helping students gain confidence and self-worth). In addition, companies large and small contracted Lee to speak on self-esteem topics as it pertains to functioning at the highest levels in a professional environment.
In 1996, Lee moved to Santa Monica, California, where she lived for 20 years, and continued providing training through classes, lectures, and counseling/coaching to women, again, mainly in the area of Building Self-Esteem. She knows from experience that once you begin to raise your self-esteem, the rest of life starts to fall into place.
For over 30 years, Lee has presented lectures and classes in Texas and California on such topics as Building Self-Esteem, Setting Boundaries, Creating a Healthy Identity, Dynamics of Abuse/Sexual Abuse/Incest, Co-Dependency, Anger Management, Love Addition, Denial/Addiction Cycle, Developing Creativity in Your Life, Self-Esteem in the Workplace, The Abandoned Orphan, Surviving the Foster Care System, and various other topics of Personal Growth and Development.
Lee has recently moved back to the Houston area to be closer to her family and continues to help women. Feel free to contact Lee if you have any questions, You can also send her info or questions at Contact Us.
Lee was Co-Founder of The Center for Human Development in River Oaks, has been speaker at Houston International Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Baywood Hospital (6-hour lecture on The Dynamics of Abuse, Sexual Abuse and Incest), CPC Cypress Point Hospital (26-week class on Building Self-Esteem) as well as speaker at the AA (Alcohol Anonymous) Conference.
She presented to the downtown Houston YMCA daycare staff a lecture on Boundaries and to HISD teachers a presentation on Self-Esteem Matters (how to be instrumental in helping students gain confidence and self-worth). In addition, companies large and small contracted Lee to speak on self-esteem topics as it pertains to functioning at the highest levels in a professional environment.
In 1996, Lee moved to Santa Monica, California, where she lived for 20 years, and continued providing training through classes, lectures, and counseling/coaching to women, again, mainly in the area of Building Self-Esteem. She knows from experience that once you begin to raise your self-esteem, the rest of life starts to fall into place.
For over 30 years, Lee has presented lectures and classes in Texas and California on such topics as Building Self-Esteem, Setting Boundaries, Creating a Healthy Identity, Dynamics of Abuse/Sexual Abuse/Incest, Co-Dependency, Anger Management, Love Addition, Denial/Addiction Cycle, Developing Creativity in Your Life, Self-Esteem in the Workplace, The Abandoned Orphan, Surviving the Foster Care System, and various other topics of Personal Growth and Development.
Lee has recently moved back to the Houston area to be closer to her family and continues to help women. Feel free to contact Lee if you have any questions, You can also send her info or questions at Contact Us.
Lee Davis, Personally.....
Life experiences have equipped Lee in many special ways to understand how and why women must learn to mobilize their inner resources for self-fulfillment through effective coping skills, healthy relationships, and creative development. Although her academic experience has taught her a lot about human nature, her personal experiences have taught her about life.
As a child, abandoned by her parents, life on the city streets and in the foster care system, then a dysfunctional, abusive foster home where she was abused on a regular, often times, daily basis left Lee feeling totally alone in the world.
No quite a teenager, at the hands of her foster father, Lee was sexually abused. It started out with Lee having to “service” the man she had been calling “dad” since she was five. But once her bedroom was moved to the basement, it was intercourse she experienced three, four, sometimes five nights a week by this man.
There were others that took advantage of her blithe in life. In babysitting situations, so-called relative, both men and older boys, made her a target their devious sexual behaviors. Of course, she didn’t say “no”. She couldn’t.
A victim of learned helplessness, she didn’t have the internal boundaries she needed to defend herself. Totally controlled by her foster parents and taught that if she didn’t do what was expected of her, she would be taken back to the place from where she came.
In addition to, or because of, having emotional issues, Lee had a poor self-image and a strong sense of worthlessness. Being told that she was ugly, stupid, worthless, and many other derogatory names on a daily basis, being used as a punching bag for one foster parent and a sexual outlet for the other, she never saw herself as anything but ugly and stupid and worthless and unlovable. The clothes provided by the state to foster kids only added to the hatred she felt when she looked in the mirror each morning. She despised herself and the way she looked.
However, despite the dysfunctions in the foster home, and low self-esteem, Lee eventually learned self-reliance, self-control, anger management, and many other ways to cope in that environment on her own. In the school systems, she learned how to seek mentoring from caring educators and library resources to build a strong belief and value system.
Lee has also had to deal with being the older, and only sister, to her sister who committed suicide as a young women, a brother who spent most of his life in prison, a foster brother who had always depended on her for emotional support who died of aids at a young age, the inability to find her biological father, the death of her biological mother, or locate her five step siblings born to her mother.
As a young single mother and welfare recipient, Lee learned gratitude while learning to support herself and her son. She learned to seek career development and educational opportunities wherever and whenever possible. Later, as a divorced woman, and victim of domestic violence, Lee picked herself up and forged ahead.
As a rape victim, who had been forced into a car one night at gunpoint by three men, she learned not only to be aware of her surroundings and to protect herself, but also how to forgive the unforgivable. When she had an abortion, she learned self-care. And, as a bone marrow cancer and transplant survivor twice, she found that her previous struggles and achievements had prepared her to face the toughest battles of her life with determination and optimism.
Other experiences along the way, both pleasant and unpleasant, the coping skills to not only survive but thrive, and the determination to never give up is what Lee imparts to others. In spite of how badly she felt about herself, somewhere in the recesses of her mind she knew there had to be something better.
Better than self-sabotage. Better than hopelessness and despair. Better than accepting that she was less than anyone else. Devastated by what was in the past and terrified by the unknown that lay before her, at age twenty-five, Lee set out on a path of personal growth and development that would lead her to a life better than she'd ever imagined.
Lee Davis has taken what she learned and teaches it to other women.
She continues to persevere.
She continues to make her life work.
She clearly believes in staying in the solution.
Feel free to contact Lee if you have any questions, You can also send her info or questions at Contact Us.
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