And yet so far to go…
I am timing myself on this one. Because I could go on way too long if I allowed myself. The hope I felt when I came across the Newsweek article […]
A Body Warrior to Meet: Lindsey
What I love about myself: My love of being a parent and ‘teacher’ to my children My biggest challenge in accepting my body and beauty: practicing and believing in […]
More than skin deep
“It’s about seeing the person first rather than forming ideas of who she is because of the way she looks.” Just came across this interesting article about a project in […]
Exporting Body Dissatisfaction
When you think about what Western culture exports, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t body dissatisfaction. But a recent study shows that our Western media is playing […]
A book for your teenage daughter
Last week, a comment on the blog led me to a new book out that’s getting an incredible amount of buzz. Written by Nancy Amanda Redd, a former Miss Virginia, […]
Revolution Brewing Down Under?
Just came across this article about a movement down under to change the images that young women see in the media. Cheers to another great step in the revolution to celebrate the beauty […]
A Body Warrior to Meet: Eleanor
What I love about myself: My imagination – it is very entertaining. My family. My food. My biggest challenge in accepting my body and beauty: I was very, very thin naturally for […]
A M'ija to Meet: Angela, Mexican-American
What I love about being Latina: I love being able to experience more than one dimension of culture. Everything is more complex when you are exposed to boundaries outside of […]
A Body Warrior to Meet: Lynn
What I love about myself: When I was in college, a mentor of mine picked one word to describe me: tenacious. Recently, a girl I mentor said that when she […]
What Confucius said about beauty
I just came across an article by Fatima Chowdhury on body image in India. Below is an excerpt. Check the whole thing out here. Confucius once said: ‘Everything has beauty,but […]
