How to Wildly Succeed in Your Life’s Work

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    Tama Kieves was a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer doing what Harvard-trained corporate lawyers are “supposed” to do, when she realized her soul wanted to write books and poetry and help people find what their souls longed to do. Her first book This Time I Dance, is one of my absolute faves, and I love […]

Do You Believe in Mind Over Medicine? (You Should…)

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Mind over Matter. Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Do you focus on the cellulite and stretch marks or celebrate your body and the blessings it has brought you? Will you look for the silver lining or just bitch about the rain pouring down from the clouds above? It isn’t easy. Too often, we overlook […]

The Courage to be Uncool

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  I have never been one of the cool kids, mostly because I was never willing to adapt to the ever-evolving shapeshifter that is “coolness” at the expense of being who I really am. Yet, even now, I notice the pressure to play it cool and the battle that goes on in my own psyche. […]

What Does Your Body Communicate to You?

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It was a big week in New York City. I gathered with my Hay House author colleagues – Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Kris Carr, Gabrielle Bernstein, and many other radiant beings – to speak at the Hay House I Can Do It Ignite conference. My publisher announced that they’re producing a public television special about […]

Embracing the Moment

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  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 […]

TED talk: Mind Over Medicine

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  Strong Like Butterfly contributor Lissa Rankin, MD,. is the creator of the health and wellness communities LissaRankin.com and OwningPink.com. She also is the author of Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013), a TEDx speaker, and Health Care Evolutionary. Join her newsletter list for free guidance on healing yourself, […]

My TED Talk: Is There Scientific Proof We Can Heal Ourselves

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  Strong Like Butterfly contributor Lissa Rankin, MD,. is the creator of the health and wellness communities LissaRankin.com and OwningPink.com. She also is the author of Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013), a TEDx speaker, and Health Care Evolutionary. Join her newsletter list for free guidance on healing yourself, […]

Filled with Gold (The Sequel)

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A note to my readers: This post originally appeared here on Girl Body Pride in a much shorter form. I thought the piece finished, hit publish, and walked away satisfied. I recently added some of my words to the Owning Pink site founded by the amazing Lissa Rankin (who happens to write for Girl Body […]

How to Help Your Beautiful Girl Love Her Body

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      I’ll never forget it. I was sixteen, getting ready to go to prom with my high school senior boyfriend Pete. My BFF had curled my hair and put it up just so. I was wearing blue eye shadow from the Clinique bonus I had just gotten as a side effect of buying […]

The Power of Joining our Voices

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  I am in a place I have wanted to be for so very long and I am here because of the power of joining my voice with that of other like-minded women with something to say and a need to be heard. I am in this place and I am grateful. And I simply […]