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dealing with my own defensiveness

dealing with my own defensiveness

Yesterday, I talked about a fundamental principle that I try to employ as much as possible when I face questions about who I am and how I am in the […]

Assume Right Intention

Assume Right Intention

Over the last few days, I’ve been asked a couple questions that are completely different, but, as I reflected on them, I realized that I handled in mostly the same […]

photo by Ellen Yale

Nice to meet you!

So, I am stealing an idea from Tami of  Teacher Goes Back to School who stole an idea from Katy at the Non-Consumer Advocate.  And that is that we’re going to have a […]

38 things update

38 things update

My all-time favorite day in Beautiful You is Day 32: Celebrate Your Birth Day.  Celebrating my birthday by writing this particular type of list (If you don’t know about the […]

The Kids are Alright Spring 2012 Part 2

The Kids are Alright Spring 2012 Part 2

Well, there was just too much goodness in those final papers to leave it at just one The Kids are Alright post this semester.  We needed another one.  So  here […]

The Kids are Alright Spring 2012

The Kids are Alright Spring 2012

At the end of each semester, my body image students write a process paper where they synthesize their learning- both personal and academic- for the semester. These papers are always […]

my FInd Your Beautiful print

A self-care inspired Mother’s Day Gift Guide

One of my high school students once told me that his dad’s advice for gift giving to women was “never something with a plug.”  Depending on what the plug belongs […]

Join me (or have your daughter join me) for an upcoming workshop

Join me (or have your daughter join me) for an upcoming workshop

First, Love You  May 19 or 23, 9 am until 5 pm, Triple Play Farm in Davidson, North Carolina Are you ready to fall in love with life because you […]

close your doors, people

Three years ago last week, we discovered an intruder in our house. A stinky, slick intruder under the baby’s bed. Of all the things I have blogged about in the last […]

nothing like ice cream on a hot day

this moment