The Weight of Great Expectations

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by Robin O’Bryant     Thanksgiving was fun. We spent a week at The Farm in Jasper, Alabama with Zeb’s family. I love them and I have the best in-laws in the world. I don’t even have to try to like them, because I just do. They are awesome. And I say that because I don’t want […]

Announcing the #BodyThanks Event

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If I asked you what you are thankful for right now…what would you say? Would you say you are thankful for your health? Your family and friends? Your job or the view from your bedroom window? All of those and more, I would imagine. We’re grateful for our kids and for our family pets and […]

This is My Brave is HAPPENING!

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  We did it. You did it. I really don’t give a damn how cheesy I sound because I am thrilled to announce that This is My Brave just ended a successful kickstarter campaign to produce a live performance of the same title. The focus is ending the stigma of mental illness and that, my […]

Being Brave Together

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  Let’s talk about Being Brave.   Not with a sword, but with our voices. Maybe we use a pen. Maybe we click, clack away on a keyboard, looking up only every now and then at the words born onto the white screen before us. Maybe we are Brave with our voices or a maybe […]

This is My Brave – Opening Up About Mental Illness

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 by Jenn Marshall   The holidays are coming up and for me this time of year is always bittersweet. The end of October marks the anniversary of my postpartum psychosis experience. Leaves changing to shades of yellow, orange and red, combined with the smell of real wood-burning fireplaces in our neighborhood on a chilly night […]

Closed Minds and Open Letters

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It’s a weird week for news and not news news (do I sound like a horrible love child of Gertrude Stein and Donald Rumsfield? No? I should…). Syria is still a mess btw, we still have a small portion of our gerrymandered electorate holding the country hostage on our sixth day of government shutdown. But […]

The Censorship of the 4th Trimester Bodies Project

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  Does this image offend you?   It shouldn’t. But for some inexplicable reason, it seems that Facebook, instagram, and related social media outlets don’t like images depicting the beauty and reality of motherhood. Facebook has been censoring the project page and even has gone so far as to remove images and lock photographer Ashlee […]

Leaving the Lights On

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Stop! Before you do anything else, scroll down and pause the video. Done? Good. Now….the site is called Girl Body Pride. But we’ve always been more about what we are about than the name itself. Body image is just a small part of the inner-struggle so many of us face on the journey to self-acceptance […]

GBP Showcase: The Tilt Shifts Reality

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Girl Body Pride is coming up on a birthday. To celebrate, we are taking a moment to showcase our favorite submissions from guest writers and contributions from our regular team. Do you have a favorite you’d like to see here? Send me an email at . Jessi Sanfilippo shared The Tilt Shifts Reality on August […]

GBP Showcase: The Plate

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Girl Body Pride is coming up on a birthday. To celebrate, we are taking a moment to showcase our favorite submissions from guest writers and contributions from our regular team. Do you have a favorite you’d like to see here? Send me an email at . Kim Tracy Prince published The Plate on GBP on […]