Don’t Get Discouraged
If you are out there trying your very best but not still not seeing the results you want: Don’t Get Discouraged. Keep going. If you are working on something and …
Self Care
today in fat hatred…
*trigger warning for fat hatred* Without going into minute detail, I will admit that I have been struggling lately. A toxic mix of depression, anxiety, medication induced weight gain, medically …
Playing the Numbers Game
A male journalist friend of mine recently asked an interesting question: Why are some women so reluctant to reveal their ages? When researching stories, he said, he often asks interview subjects how …
Be Your Own Best Friend
I bet – I just BET – you are an amazing friend. Kind. Loyal. Forgiving. Encouraging. Available. Positive. Supportive. Funny. Helpful. Giving. I just bet. While I might be quite …
Smile, You Are Alive.
Smile can be easy to lose sight of the obvious sometimes. We all live such busy lives with numerous stresses, pulls, needs and wants, often striving for more and more. Such striving …
Wear What You Want – When You Want
The Universe was sending me a sign this week that I had to write this post with the simple premise that I wanted to let you, Beautiful You, know that it’s …
All women are real.
I was reading the NAAFA blog’s latest update on the casting for a new TV show, and this stopped me dead in my tracks: More To Love is by the same guys …
If only poor people understood nutrition
It seems like some people are constantly wringing their hands about how poor people eat (to wit: badly.) And the most popularly proposed solution is to teach them (“them”) more about …
My Perfectly Imperfect Self-Care
When the beautiful Mara and Tamarisk asked if I would be part of a blog hop that was going to have a focus on self-care – I have to confess I immediately recoiled. …
Food isn’t poison.
One thing I dislike about nutrition is how often we discuss eating as though it’s something incredibly dangerous that people must do just right or risk INSTANT DEATH. When society has become …