#body acceptance

Summer is just around the corner, and so the gyms are filling up and people are pounding the pavements, trying to get ‘beach ready’ and achieve the perfect ‘bikini body.’ Exercise is always a good habit to get into and should always be encouraged, but are these goals really healthy ones? These

Twelve years old, awkward and overweight, I marveled when AOL dial-up arrived on our family PC. That first afternoon when the irresistible, and not yet cliched, announcement “You've got mail!” occurred, I wandered into a teen message board where I chatted with, allegedly, twin 14-year-old girls ...

Let’s talk about girl crushes. I totally have one on Jessamyn Stanley, whose class I had the pleasure of taking at The Yoga Collective in New York City. A certified yoga instructor in Durham, North Carolina, this 29-year-old is simply awesome—not just because of her friendly spirit (she gave me a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9r6TVLm9J0 I was waiting, hoping, praying that after Iskra Lawrence gave that impassioned speech about loving yourself she began asking for a few bucks from the passengers to get blind drunk. That would have made this video transcendent. “Love your vessel! But right

I don't remember the first time I became aware of my body — aware in the way that a little girl shouldn't be. In my experience, when you're young, you don't question what you look like. You use your body in the ways it's intended. As a vessel to propel you forward: hands for grasping the monkey ...