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Evicting the Inner Critic

Evicting the Inner Critic

How negative self talk effects your health “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor…”     Or is it? Most of us remember the gentle tune that started the PBS show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, inviting us into a world of kindness,...
Divorcing Exercise from Appearance

Divorcing Exercise from Appearance

If you’ve spent years fighting your body like I have, by logging endless hours of cardio, running miles and miles, and taking class after class…all in the name of weight loss, you’re not alone. For decades, society has drilled into us the same message: Work harder. Go...
Strength Training is Body Confidence in Action

Strength Training is Body Confidence in Action

I found strength training while healing from my battle with Anorexia Nervosa, back in the late 1970s. It made me feel safer and stronger in my body. I went to a tennis club my parents belonged to. They had one Universal Machine. That was it. At first, it felt...
How Body Confidence Is a Quiet Superpower

How Body Confidence Is a Quiet Superpower

Oprah had a sign above her dressing room door that read: “You are responsible for the energy you bring into this room.” So, I always am thinking about the energy I want to bring into the rooms that I enter. What I have come to realize, is that how I feel in my body...
But, I don’t want to!

But, I don’t want to!

But I don’t want to have to do that! I want to keep writing my mom’s story! I have been writing my mom’s story here lately, and it’s been pulling me forward. It seems writing calls to me. First it was The Body Joyful…putting my story down on paper and...