If we tell ourselves over and over again, I don’t like this or that about my body it becomes our whole focal point. I have a friend whom I have mentored for the last year and a half. I... Read more >>

Recently a woman contacted me who is studying journalism in her third year at university in England. She is writing a paper on facial disfiguration and asked if I could answer some questions as a... Read more >>

She stares at her body in the mirror and she loathes it.  Not because she is fifteen pounds overweight. That can be dealt with. She can be in control of her weight. Not because... Read more >>

Last month I turned thirty-four and vowed to be a little kinder to my body. I want to give it more respect, to stop judging it so harshly, to discontinue defining it by society’s standards. I... Read more >>

Okay, ladies. It’s time to stop sucking in your stomach. Take a quick survey. Are you sucking it in right now? If so, here’s the big question: WHY? (Really, is anyone looking at your... Read more >>

Lately I have been the part of a few photo ops—friends in town, a baby shower, mom visiting—stuff like that. And I’ve noticed myself saying the strangest things.... Read more >>