What We Must Do

3 More Ideas for Championing Yourself

The List Continues…   4.  Try something new.  Every year on my birthday, I write a list of new things that I want to try to accomplish in the coming year.  […]

3 Ideas for Championing Yourself

Here are three ideas to help you on the road to becoming your own biggest cheerleader and champion.  I’ll post even more ideas in the coming weeks. 1.  Educate Yourself.  […]

Championing Your Daughter

In the fight for a positive body image, parents might easily feel as if their role in championing their daughters’ self-confidence is negated by the rush of media presented to […]

Don't believe everything you see…

A few weeks ago, the Today Show did a feature on enhanced magazine covers and photos– which are really the rule rather than the exception.  I was reminded of how […]

A letter from a mom

A friend e-mailed recently to talk about Hijas and reflect on raising her mixed-race daughter.  Would her ethnicity affect her, would the Disney princesses steal her strong little girl away, […]

Let the beauty revolution begin: Hijas Americanas Launches on June 1st

When I started work on Hijas Americanas in early 2006, there wasn’t much talk of shaking up America’s beauty standard.  I researched, interviewed wonderful, forthright women, and wrote while taking […]

The Sister Study for Breast Cancer

Help Discover the Causes of Breast Cancer…Woman by Woman, Sister by Sister! The Sister Study, a national research study to learn how the environment and genes affect the chances of […]