Beautiful You

Giving Up Beauty

So, I never intended to have a career as a writer and, most especially, did not expect to end up being a positive body image advocate (well, I personally was […]

Look What Came in the Mail

Look What Came in the Mail

A few months ago, the final cover for beautiful you was sent to me and it was just thrilling.  At the time, I mentioned that there are a few different times […]

Changes…

So, I had to do a very small, yet minorly public thing today for the new book.  And I got paralyzed (even though no one will even I know I did […]

Operation Beautiful with Caitlyn Boyle

Operation Beautiful with Caitlyn Boyle

Earlier this year, I discovered Operation Beautiful and blogged about it here.  Earlier this summer, Operation Beautiful went from being a global project to also being a book.  Now, people everywhere […]

15 year old me, none the wiser

Let's talk about… a quarter?

I begged my way into my first real date at fifteen.  I begged my mom, I mean.  Not the guy, I promise.  And as soon as permission had passed my mamacita’s […]

What makes you go like this...

What makes you go like this…

*  Janine Davis, Caitlyn Boyle, and Molly Barker above On Friday, my Body Image class had the wonderful fortune of being visited by some amazing people doing really great work.  […]

The woman who lives in my house

The woman who lives in my house

The woman who lives in my house runs with her dog every morning.  She loves the quiet of that time and loses herself in thought or the book she’s listening […]

Early Bird Registration for beautiful you. the workshop

I just realized that the early bird price for beautiful you. the workshop goes up tomorrow so I wanted to remind you, too.  If you want to get the early […]

A little self-appreciation, please

On Friday, I head back to school.  I’ll have 45 students in my seminar and we’ll spend 3 hours together every Friday morning discussing body image, how it is formed, […]

Why don't you go Sew Retro?

Why don't you go Sew Retro?

There are a few blog posts that I wrote my first year of blogging that remain my most read posts every week, years later.  One of them is a post […]