Tesay Glinoga

Advocacies.

Tesay has initiated the project, “March Na! An Ode to Women.” for Women’s Month. She organizes gender sensitivity seminars to men to raise their awareness on the plight of women. She also organized “Men for Women Movement that jumpstarted a 10K and 20K Race Walk among men which she envisions to become an international race in the future. She organized brisk walking trainings in Metro Manila and promoted it as a better exercise than jogging.

Interview With Manila Times.

In her small niche in her office, Bilancia, and even before that, she prefers to work quietly in an almost semi-hermitic life for the past years, modest as not to announce her little achievements, and chooses to be forgotten. With so much of humility to stay in the sidelines, Tesay now finds it difficult to advertise herself in her political battle against the perceived political giants who have learned the art and skill of making noise and empty promises during election season.

The Decision To Run For Mayor.

That Saturday during the onslaught of the typhoon, I was trapped in San Carlos Seminary from morning till afternoon. The rains were strong and the traffic was not moving anymore. A neighbor called me up to inform me that floodwater was rising to knee-deep. I was not really worried kasi mataas ang lugar ng office. When there were floods in the past, people took shelter in my office. Nagpapainom pa nga ako ng kape pag minsang merong stranded sa harap ng office. But not this time; my office was not spared. Anyway, I could not return to check my office; everywhere was flooded. I went home to my condo unit here in Legazpi Village. I was able to check on the office on Monday afternoon yet.

Tesay has gone through many dark nights and she has used her “woundedness” to heal others. She has opened her center, Bilancia, to give services for women and children, and anyone who needs solace, or just wants to talk about his concerns. Tesay has designed her own psycho-spiritual counseling/healing based on her trainings in Psychological counseling, drug rehabilitation, meditations and her own experience how she was able to heal her wounds.

Bilancia is an Italian word for balance, or equilibrium. It also means dance; dance is a form of balance. Tesay conducts healing dance. Tesay adds her personal definition to Bilancia as balance of the Mind-Body-Spirit to be able to function well.

“We need to empower women, not to use it against men, but to use it for our own well-being. Our Source of power is the Holy Spirit. No matter what devastation we encounter in life, including Ondoy or Haiti’s earthquake, we have the power to process that in our minds. Our emotions and feelings, our ideas, even faith starts from the mind. So I espouse Viktor Frankl’s ‘Will to will’ to salvage ourselves from devastation. In the end, only we can save ourselves; and so, we are our own disciples and healers.”

Tesay Glinoga

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Advocacies.

Interview With Manila Times.

The Decision To Run For Mayor.

Post Elections.

Bilancia

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