Just The Way We Are
A long time ago when three people were reading Girl Body Pride (two of them being the friends writing for the site and the third being myself) I posted an invitation to the community we were working to build. I asked women to send me pictures of themselves. No perfect hair teased and tucked into [...]
I said something really bad to my daughter the last time she called me fat. Mind you, she’s eight years old and often reminds me that I’m fat. And mind you, I’ve raised her without Barbie dolls or television thinking that somehow that was going to keep cultural expectations at bay. For the record, [...]
The child calls Bullshit. It’s time to Pony Up. If The Catcher in the Rye had a sequel based on a Spanglish-speaking Mexican-American homeschooling, allergic to everything, eating-disordered writer mama of one, I’d be a happy girl. Because then, at least, I could just hand people a copy of the book when they ask [...]
It was a big week in New York City. I gathered with my Hay House author colleagues – Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Kris Carr, Gabrielle Bernstein, and many other radiant beings – to speak at the Hay House I Can Do It Ignite conference. My publisher announced that they’re producing a public television special about [...]
Whatever it is that’s going on with me I am feeling braver by the minute. There’s power in writing and claiming words and beliefs. This started out as an homage to being a girl and figuring out how to be a woman and that goal is still there. I mentioned it on Twitter and promised [...]
I love Neil Kramer. It’s Facebook updates like these (along with his brilliant iPhone pics on his instagram feed) that just make me want to high five him for cutting through the bullshit and just saying or showing us what is. In this case, it’s a brilliant case of Funny Because It’s True. In fact, [...]
She was just a picture on Facebook, one of those photos meant to provoke comments. She was a large woman wearing a neon miniskirt and low-cut top which could not completely contain her plentiful bosom. She was going through her day, talking on her phone, content with the world. The post said to describe her [...]
By: Holly M. Thatcher, MD Is it healthier to be pleasantly plump? Or should you skip all desserts and work out twice a day to be a ‘lean-iac’? No sooner did many of us make resolutions to exercise more, eat less, and either lose weight or vow to at least not gain weight in the [...]
At first I thought I had gone blind. Everything was fuzzy and I was jolted, hard. My ears either popped or I was still in slow motion, everything swirling. Why aren’t the children making noise? They were making too much noise just a moment ago, clicking and unclicking their seatbelts. Young boys playing a stupid [...]
A friend recently sent me a link to an article on Ed Bites regarding the author’s thoughts on the media and eating disorders. The article, to be published in Emirates Woman magazine, is well-written, thought-provoking, and importantly (to me, anyway) written from personal experience. The author, Carrie Arnold, recounts her own experience as an [...]
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