Beautiful You

First, Love You

First, Love You

Are you happy with how much love you have in your life– from you? Do you have enough self-confidence to make your dreams possible? Are you energized by who you […]

The Weekly Spark:  Watch Your Impact

The Weekly Spark: Watch Your Impact

Allow me to tell you about my hair. I started life with curly hair.  It was so curly that my sister remembers me covering my little head with my fists […]

Friday Reflections

Friday Reflections

Friday Reflections is all about reflecting on the week by observing our senses.  My hope is that this will be a gentle, easy way to tune into how we are […]

thoughts on self-love

thoughts on self-love

I am honored to be over at Weightless on Psych Central today (read this blog regularly if you aren’t already.  Margarita, the brains and heart behind Weightless, is amazing and […]

Reality check: reality TV does not make you feel better

Reality check: reality TV does not make you feel better

“I watch reality television because it makes me feel better about myself, and I can just escape reality for a little bit,” my students often tell me. As they see […]

You are here on purpose.

You are here on purpose.

I was on the road this past weekend (more on that in this week’s Friday Reflections) and will be on the road again this week, giving talks on a couple […]

75 ways to show yourself some love today

75 ways to show yourself some love today

There’s a holiday this week. “Yeah, I know,” you are thinking. Except we are probably talking about different holidays. While Valentine’s Day is indeed tomorrow, today may be an even […]

Guest Post:  5 Benefits of Feeling Your Feelings

Guest Post: 5 Benefits of Feeling Your Feelings

My favorite thing about the internet is the chance to meet amazing people from across the way, people with whom I feel so simpatico.  And one of those wonderful internet […]

The Weekly Spark:  Tune out the media for a little bit

The Weekly Spark: Tune out the media for a little bit

80% of women feel worse about themselves after seeing a beauty ad.  $20 billion is spent on beauty marketing in the US annually.  It takes just one 30 minute television […]

check out Cristina's finger. After photoshopping her body, they worked on her hands to make them proportionate and hands are always very hard to do.

Little Photoshop of Horrors

I had the pleasure of teaching a media literacy workshop at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington this week and I got to share some of my latest photoshop […]