Just The Way We Are
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 […]
Can I call your sister stupid? No? Does that bother you? I’m not sure why, seeing as how you don’t even like your her. You tell anyone who will listen and rarely go home for holidays. What? What was that? Oh, so you think your sister is stupid? So what’s the problem? Why is […]
The morning after Miss America is always a mixed bag, isn’t it? The Miss America pageant itself is kind of like watching an accident. You don’t want to look; you know it’s completely wrong and beyond antiquated. It always seems like we should be at some higher plane at this point in our evolution–some place […]
I just had a 20 minute argument with The Husband about his need to be excited about EXERCISE and GOING PALEO because he just read A BOOK and now he sees the proverbial light. He wants EXERCISE and is full of suggestions for what I NEED TO DO and and it’s all in […]
“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 […]
Words inspire. Words like these help us realize that there are so many others like us and not one of us us alone, even if we feel as if we are. For some time now, I’ve hoped to build a resource list for Girl Body Pride readers who may need more than the words […]
Let’s talk numbers, shall we? – 42% of girls in grades 1-3 want to be thinner – 51% of 9-10 year old girls feel better about themselves when they’re dieting – 53% of 13 year old girls are unhappy with their bodies; by the time they’re 17, 78% of them will be – By […]
I trip over spoken words. So when I woke up a few months ago depressed, upset, and not quite sure why feelings of inadequacy always make me feel so heavy and like I’m disappearing at the same time, my first reaction was to write my feelings, hit publish, and then save myself the trouble of […]
Girl. Because no matter what decade we find ourselves in, we share a desire to heal a piece of ourselves while doing everything within our power to make sure today’s daughters grow strong in mind before all else. Body. We are at war with the reflection we see in the mirror. It’s either too […]
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