Being Me

I am

I have spent so many years feeling like I am at a constant war with my body – well, my body and my looks. I remember spending an exorbitant amount of time in high school trying to achieve what I thought was the perfect physical form.  I wanted to be tiny.  I wanted to have the [...]

Lessons, Reflections, and Self-Acceptance

Young Woman, Arms Outstretched

I’ve learned a very important lesson in the process of becoming a mother. In order to age gracefully and become truly, timelessly beautiful, we must surrender our attachment to the youthful bodies we once had and revel in the fact that, as much as it sounds like a cliché, it’s really true that our essential [...]