What my minimum and ideal self-care look like
Self-care. If I am honest, my self-care changes seasonally. Part of that is because some seasons draw me out more than others (the spring and summer see my yearning for […]
The Weekly Spark: Determine your self-care
I love summer. Not for the heat (I yearn to live in a 50 to 70 degree year round climate. Do you know where that place is? Please tell me), […]
Sustaining Your Light
If you ask me now what I have MOST loved doing (professionally) in my life, I will answer teaching high school. And, yes, I have a great, really satisfying, incredibly […]
Summer of Intentionality 2013
Last week, I started thinking about . The end of May feels like the perfect time to share my summer daydreams. The list, of course, will evolve over the summer […]
Your standards. Your limits. Today.
Still inspired by Sally’s post yesterday, ? Let’s keep massaging that message today. “What is the point of media?” I often ask in my body image class or when I […]
The Big Secret: a guest post from Sally McGraw
One of the blogs I check out regularly is Sally McGraw’s Already Pretty. I discovered Sally years ago when one of my former students (hello Laura!) emailed me to say, […]
Living the List, Month 6
Since May 18th just passed, six months after my 39th birthday, and 6 months before 40, I thought that I would take a minute to look over my birthday list […]
The Weekly Spark: prepare for your Summer of Intentionality
It is that time again. What time, you wonder. Time to start working on my summer plans. I call this project my Summer of Intentionality and it was born from […]
What are you ready to give up?
It had started as a rhetorical question. “What are you willing to give up?” I had asked my students. “What standard are you holding yourself to that isn’t real or […]
Navigating weight talk in front of your daughter
I hate the words “have you lost weight.” They are just loaded. With good intentions, the speaker would insist, but with so much else underneath those good intentions. You see, […]
