A Weigh In on Shame

Michaella Change

  “I look gooooood!  No seriously, I really look good!”  I look in the mirror and I truly think, “you rock this girl”  Naked, in yoga pants, jeans.  Doesn’t matter.  I like what I see.  And yet………………………….. I feel shame for what I’ve done.  I’ve lost 50lbs.  And gained it all back.  Yep, every last [...]

The Healing Power of Telling Your Story

Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God

  One of the reasons I began blogging is because I had a story to tell, one I intended to live out loud, on a public stage, recording along the way the journey of how I had lost my mojo and how I would get it back. Making this one decision to tell my story [...]

The Worst Kind of Betrayal

Brene Brown Daring Greatly

I was reading my shero Brené Brown’s new book Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead when I reached page 51 and my heart stopped in an “OMG, how did she read my mind, and how did she know exactly how to give language to something that’s [...]

All Around the Mulberry Bush: Jessica Simpson & Body Image

Jessica-Simpson-on-Katie

I was prepared to rant. Jessica Simpson debuted her “new mom body” on the Katie Show and my emotions told reason to take a coffee and doughnut break while I raked Simpson (who gave birth in May) through the coals for selling out and giving me an even bigger complex about the size of my [...]