GBP Showcase on: Body After Baby? Bullshit!

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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 . Lissa’s essay, Body After Baby? Bullshit! was written for […]

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. […]

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, […]