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…
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…
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 […]
Participate in a study on eating disorder recovery
One of the frustrations shared with me while I was conducting research for Hijas Americanas was how misunderstood Latinas who sought help for eating disorders felt. One young woman remembered being […]
Play date
This is going to sound ironic, but I am going to go ahead and say it. I want you to do one thing today. Schedule play. Schedule play? You say. […]
The Case for Care
When I was twenty-four, I broke myself. My whole darn self. I was a passionate, young teacher, coach, and administrator. I threw myself into doing everything I could for the […]
Horses. Hope. Healing: a retreat for cancer survivors
I am so excited to announce this upcoming retreat. My friend, Kris, and I partnered together to the Girl Power equine assisted learning and self-discovery camp this summer and we’re […]
What’s your default?
During our second celebration of Happy’s First Thanksgiving (we celebrate Thanksgiving with both families on Thanksgiving day in a fine example of our general insanity), Gracie, his sweet cousin who is a year […]
What’s your theme?
On Tuesday’s post, a reader comment reminded me of this passage from a Stephen King short story: The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are […]
Today’s tool: a personal mission statement
Writing a personal mission statement is something that I always had my college and summer students (who were in high school) do. Mission statements allow you to voice what it is […]
