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Horses. Hope. Healing: a cancer survivors' retreat

Horses. Hope. Healing: a cancer survivors’ retreat

Horses. Hope. Healing for female cancer survivors is a one-day self-discovery and empowerment retreat inspired by equine assisted learning and the book, Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance. […]

Photo by Jill E. Williams

What do you love to do? What has it taught you?

On the first day of Girl Power this summer, we asked the girls to share a few things about themselves during their introductions including what they most love to do.  Play […]

Good morning, beautiful!

Good morning, beautiful!

Last Wednesday, on a sunny afternoon, I woke up my boy from his nap and put him down on the floor.  He looked at me for a second, before running […]

this moment

this moment

  A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. And, well, this was pretty sweet, too…

Hope. Horses. Healing: a female cancer survivor’s retreat

  Hope.Horses.Healing for female cancer survivors is a one-day self-discovery and empowerment retreat inspired by equine assisted learning and the book, Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance. Offered […]

photo by Jill E. Williams

The price of vanity

Have you ever had a moment where you learned exactly what you knew deep down inside but something had been getting in the way of living what you knew? Recently, […]

Writing a wellness prescription for yourself

Writing a wellness prescription for yourself

  Love Your Body Day 2011 poster It’s like a riddle every semester.  How do you care for your body each day, I ask my students in their very first […]

Invigorate, Inspire, Embrace, Abandon, and pack your tools...

Invigorate, Inspire, Embrace, Abandon, and pack your tools…

What invigorates you?  What inspires you?  What are you embracing?  What are you abandoing?  And what tools are in your toolkit?

I am, I believe, I hope, I expect...

I am, I believe, I hope, I expect…

A few months ago, I was contacted by Amber Karnes, an amazing woman in Virginia who had found Beautiful You at her local libary.  Amber had the idea of creating a body image […]