Rosie Molinary
Announcing the 2nd Edition of Beautiful You
Late last fall, my publisher, Seal Press, reached out to see if I’d be interested in doing a 2nd Edition of Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance. This […]
Showing Up Less to Show Up More
A few weeks ago, I went to breakfast with a dear friend and we were talking about presence, about showing up, about breadth versus depth. As a person, I like […]
Your body isn’t anyone else’s business.
Summer break is over. There is a new puppy in our house (meet Hank!) and I only had 8 official work days in August (many of which were spent in […]
The one about everything.
When I first started writing this piece, I thought the big message was life keeps handing you the lesson you need to learn until you learn it. Then, after the […]
A call to be the light
In the spring of 9th grade year, I unequivocally learned that the ideas some people had about what being a Latina might mean could actually impact my life. As I […]
Questions to Answer for When You Need a Reset
Thank you so much for your sweet notes of encouragement last week. Not long after I penned that post, our sweet dog of twelve years fell suddenly ill and we […]
Finding words to begin again
I disappeared for awhile there because I lost my voice. Well, not my voice so much as my words. They just left me. In the days and weeks after my mom passed […]
In the Woods
For years, I have dreamed of taking the time for a writer’s residency where I just parked myself somewhere still, ignored my responsibilities, and wrote for a while. But the […]
The Kids Are Alright Spring 2016
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 […]
an open letter to my class on the last day of school
It was an easy moment. There I was helping Happy get dressed for bed and he was struggling to pull up his pajama bottoms after putting on lotion. He twisted, […]
