Beautiful You

this moment

this moment

A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

My mom and I all natural at the airport

All Natural Friday Details

This Friday, February 25, we will be celebrating All Natural Friday in my body image class at UNC-Charlotte (and around the world, wherever you are).  What is All Natural Friday?  […]

photo by Jill E. Williams

Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You […]

It's not just a white girl thing...

It’s not just a white girl thing…

This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness week and the National Eating Disorders Association has asked people to do just one thing to support awareness.  Today, I wanted to blog […]

Sofia Vergara with and without make-up

Going all natural

I issued the challenge because it was becoming more and more apparent that it would be a challenge.  This Friday, my body image class and I will go without any […]

Eating Disorder Awareness Week & a BOGO opportunity

Eating Disorder Awareness Week & a BOGO opportunity

February 20-26 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Eating Disorder Association. Head on over to NEDA’s web-site to register for their campaign and you’ll be gifted with […]

Faith Hill's Redbook Cover and the original photo

Becoming media literate

Do you know how much of what you see is doctored in some way? If it’s in a print magazine, it’s pretty likely that what you are seeing is an […]

Complete these sentences

Complete these sentences

Day 33 in Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance asks readers to complete these sentences. Here’s my take: Someone who energizes me is my dad.  He is such […]

Let the revolution begin (or it's never about you)...

Let the revolution begin (or it’s never about you)…

“If I teach you nothing else- wait, I lie, I want to teach you other things, too, but this is a really important thing I want you to learn from […]

photo by Jill E. Williams

We’re here ON purpose

So a friend of mine, the same smart friend who is asking herself about how she triumphed each day, recently made this observation: “One had only spend a day admiring […]