Beautiful You

Lighting a fire

Lighting a fire

It occurred to me the other day that I am just two months away from my birthday and, yet, I am certainly not 5/6 of the way through my annual […]

Your Life Tells Your Story

Your Life Tells Your Story

A couple Fridays ago, we said goodbye to a 100 year old friend.  It was bittersweet.  In July, we celebrated her 100th birthday with a fun party.  In mid-August, our […]

Get Some Perspective

Get Some Perspective

Today’s post is adapted from Beautiful You.  So, today, we’re going to get our Day 70 on.  Here we go: One morning, I was eating my bowl of oatmeal while […]

How do you feel about your body?

How do you feel about your body?

  I was asked the other day how I feel about my body.  What a good, direct question to ask; perhaps, especially of someone who does body image work.  And […]

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 […]

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, […]