Food for Thought

Are you ready to live your announcement?

Are you ready to live your announcement?

Years ago, there was an ad (Nike?) that I just loved.  It read: You are born.  And oh, how you wail! Your first breath is a scream. Not timid or […]

February 3 Simple Goals

February 3 Simple Goals

Back in January, I suggested some different beginning of the year rituals that might resonate with you, even if you aren’t a traditional New Year’s Resolver.  One of those suggestions […]

How to Make Friends with Yourself

How to Make Friends with Yourself

Are you done with the self-defeat? Are you over the self-loathing? Are you ready to turn away from the mirror and get on with your life? Well, this lesson that […]

photo by Jill E. Williams

Don’t engage crazy, revisited

So, really resonated with people– I got emails, tweets, and Facebook comments.  And all of that discussion with people about their own toxic relationship situations revealed that a fair amount […]

A January Round Up

A January Round Up

I have the great honor of being a blogger for a couple of great websites and I wanted to share my January posts with you.  I hope you’ll go check […]

Delight rather than deny

Delight rather than deny

“You should get it,” BF said me. I shook my head no.  I couldn’t even fathom the idea of buying something so impractical at that price. “I can’t,” I told […]

You have to go in to go out

You have to go in to go out

On the next to last day of last semester, I was wrapping things up with my body image class students, reminding them of the sound bites I wanted them to […]

Let's just all give it the best we've got

Let’s just all give it the best we’ve got

There was another fabulous visionSPARK workshop this past Saturday.  I tell you, if I could exist in visionSPARK workshops, just move from one to another for the rest of my […]

Making to dos into I wont's

Making to dos into I wont’s

If I am completely honest, there are quite a few don’t wanna dos on this morning’s to do list.   That right there was this morning’s status update on Facebook […]

photo by Jill E. Williams

And if you care, here’s what’s up

  On Thursday, I ran a post called You are the One Who Cares the Most. Jamie had this incredibly thoughtful comment that really got me thinking: In addition, we […]