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Healthy Balanced Life: A Q&A with Dr. Ann Becker-Schutte

Healthy Balanced Life: A Q&A with Dr. Ann Becker-Schutte

I met Dr. Ann Becker-Schutte the way so many of us meet new friends these days- on social media.  We connected over Twitter, and her sensibilities and sensitivities really resonated with […]

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The Make-Up Test

Hope you’ll enjoy The Make-Up Test in the Charlotte Observer.  It looks at the all-natural experiment in my body image class.

oh so pensive...

Considering One Day

My kid ate Sun Chips for dinner tonight.  I wasn’t supposed to be the mom who let her kid eat Sun Chips for dinner.  But, somehow, that’s how the night […]

Three things

  My computer has been acting wonky (because it is oh-so time for a replacement one) and so I need to write quickly before it decides to hold me hostage […]

Strategies for Delight

Strategies for Delight

  I am so honored to be blogging today over at Sally McGraw’s fabulous blog Already Pretty.  There I am talking about delighting in life rather than denying yourself simple joys (torn from […]

Rock On

Rock On

We arrive at the base of the mountain after a forty minute hike.  The rock face in front of us creates a 90 degree angle with the ledge where we […]

Picture Yourself Fulfilled

Picture Yourself Fulfilled

Quick.  Picture one of your favorite photographs of yourself.  What makes you love it? If you are anything like me, it’s likely not a formal shot that someone made you […]

When I grow up...

When I grow up…

  I turned to journaling in my teens.  There is so much to process as you come of age, and it was long before technology allowed you to confess 24-7 […]

Chaperoning Prom, circa 1998

getting to body peace

  The time: Monday morning.  The scene: my closet.  The problem: what to wear to be on television. The challenge: the transition in weather makes me not want to wear long pants and […]