Entries Tagged as 'Self-improvement'

OUR GIRLS, OURSELVES

October 5th, 2011 2 Comments

This 60-second video captures my fears about my daughters growing up in our crazy, body-image-obsessed culture.  (“The world is insane,” says meditation teacher Adyashanti.  ”Stop expecting it to be otherwise!”) Is it inevitable that A and C will go through the same body-loathing I’ve experienced over the years?  As women and mothers, how do we [...]

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Stuff It

August 30th, 2009 No Comments

I’ve had a short fuse lately.  Maybe it’s hormonal, but I can’t seem to tolerate even the basic level of mess in our house.  Sticky mess on the kitchen floor, tiny-toy mess in the playroom, marker mess on my kids’ faces, potty mess in the bathroom… I may be halfway out of The Baby Cave, [...]

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Never Enough

August 18th, 2009 2 Comments

Is this the title of a Melissa Etheridge song or just the refrain running round in my head? Note to self:  STOP reading US Magazine, Marie-Claire, Vogue, and other dangerous glossies.  And especially during vulnerable, cranky moon-time, avoid even Yoga Journal, whose lithe, blissed-out California yoga goddesses practicing full Natarajasana on the beach have the potential [...]

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