Just The Way We Are
Last Tuesday, I was sitting on my bed, working on my laptop, when I heard a helicopter just outside my window. Looking up, I saw the helicopter carrying a basket, as it flew to the rocky beach and craggy cliffs where I hike every day. Boats were zipping around the surf, and sirens were [...]
Have you met Holly Fulger yet? She’s amazing and brilliant and inspiring. She also happens to be the author of a fantastic book on inner beauty and the force behind Speaking of Beauty TV. Girl Body Pride isn’t just about making the curvy feel good about our hips because I don’t subscribe to the “Real [...]
One of the secrets for embracing a life of joy is to accept yourself where you are at today. This is a key step to being comfortable in your own skin. For women, we can find this difficult to do. Looking in the mirror we can see plenty not to accept. We see those 10 [...]
Go ahead. Stop what you are doing right now and look in the nearest reflective surface. Ignore the mean girl in your head and the things she always says because the mean girl is a bitch and it’s time to tell her to shut up, already. Instead, focus on the positive. One positive. And then [...]
I am just stubborn enough to refuse to make New Year’s Resolutions. Instead, I’ll call them “goals” or “aspirations” or “manifestos”. The more I think about declaring this, for myself, the Year of the Girl, the more I am dedicating to it. Everything starts out as a small idea, right? What that means for [...]
“I think my mom feels insecure about herself because every time we go to take family pictures she always says that she’s too fat.” Kaitlin, 11. “My mom is always comparing herself to other people and my grandmother is always like, “Oh my God, look at my belly fat, it’s disgusting!” Jasmine, 10. We [...]
Kate Winslet. I love her. Always have. And today, I love her even more. I recently read a quote by her that made a huge impact. It left a mark in my mind + heart and brought even more attention to an important change that needs to be made in the body image conversation: [...]
Something happened this morning. I can’t really explain it, but I had spent the morning reading books, working on a proposal, and doing my social media for Little Pickle Press, and then I decided to check in on Twitter. Nothing big, really, and that’s not normal for me this time of day but I’m [...]
In the past few weeks, the entertainment world revealed their horror over writer/director/actress, Lena Dunham. Why? She dared to do two horrific, unforgiveable things: 1) win an Emmy as a young newcomer 2) walked around naked as her character Hannah without the decency to be shamed by her body. We see naked women on HBO [...]
“I think Dad is gay.” My sister and I were in the basement of our family home. I was about to leave for college in the fall and felt I needed to share my suspicions before I left. I knew my sister preferred to leave things well enough alone, told me I was crazy [...]
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