What I always want to remember as a parent
“We are all just one phone call away from living a totally different life,” said Kelly Corrigan at a speaking event I went to last week (you might remember that […]
Find Something You Love
Here’s another truth that I share with students in my body image seminar: You have to find something you love. Notice I didn’t say someone. Nope, we’re pretty good at […]
Journal Prompts
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about how a little self-awareness goes a long way. Since I am always striving for more self-awareness and work to get there with some […]
The kids are alright
As each semester draws to a close, I wonder if I have done enough. Have I helped my students at all? Are they better prepared to face the challenges in […]
Natural Highs
When I taught high school, I always gave my students something I called a Happy Sheet on Fridays. It was a piece of mental goodness, a lens they could use […]
Insights
So, when I was in high school, I went on a leadership retreat and one of the tasks we were given was to go off with one other person and […]
An activist's autobiography, part 1
For a project that I have been developing, I wrote a list of questions to serve as an activist’s autobiography. Here I answer the first five […]
Reflecting
So Mondays on Hijas Americanas are dedicated to reflection, self-awareness, self-esteem, identity (because all those things play into becoming our fully realized best selves; beautiful ‘us’es if you will). […]
Good
From Eckhart Tolle’s Oneness With All Life (excerpted in O, the Oprah Magazine in the January 2009 issue): “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by […]
Your own reflection
Creating a positive sense of self requires a multi-faceted approach. One tool that I think is indispensable on your journey to positive and healthy self-possession is a journal. I taught a […]
