Choosing Love in Politics and Life
October 22, 2013 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Advocacy, Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Healthy Communication, LGBT, Loving Your Body, Politics, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, Volunteering, Wellness, Wellness
Well, I thought my first post for We Are the Real Deal, one of my favorite sites, would be about healthy relationships or self-empowerment but it turns out something kind of amazing has happened: someone has announced a political campaign based on love and dignity and I want to celebrate that with you today. Marianne […]
Finding Your Sanctuary
September 19, 2013 by Debra Hennesy
Filed under ADHD, Anxiety, Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression, Empowerment, Exercise, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Movement, Music, OCD, Parents, PTSD, Recovery, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, Stress Management, Treatment, Wellness, Writing and Poetry, Yoga and Meditation
Recently, my family and I were fortunate enough to discover The Wild Animal Sanctuary, a place in Colorado in which animals (carnivores like lions, tigers, and bears…oh my!) are rescued, often from misinformed people who attempt to keep such animals as pets. The animals are taken to an amazing facility of over 700 acres, in […]
Is yoga like stand-up comedy?
June 10, 2013 by Debra Hennesy
Filed under Addiction, ADHD, Anxiety, Bi-Polar Disorder, Body Image, Depression, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Exercise, Expressive Arts Therapies, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mindfulness, OCD, Parents, Prevention, PTSD, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Spirituality, Stress Management, Treatment, Wellness, Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Yoga Therapy
“You’re a yoga teacher? Cool…show me something really impressive!” This is a typical response when I share that I teach yoga (and teach the teachers!). I think that it must be what stand-up comedians feel when they divulge what they do, and hear the inevitable “Say something funny!” Oh, the pressure! When I get that […]
Birds-Eye View
May 6, 2013 by Debra Hennesy
Filed under Empowerment, Exercise, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Spirituality, Wellness, Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Yoga Therapy
The last time I went to Pikes Peak (not far from the place that I now call home), I had no intention of doing anything other than hiking and enjoying the scenery with my husband. Little did I know that I would have two experiences that changed how I feel about the world around me, […]
The Blessing of Affirmations
April 9, 2013 by Debra Hennesy
Filed under Activism, Anxiety, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Media Literacy, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Prevention, Recovery, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, Stress Management, Treatment, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry, Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Yoga Therapy
When you look in the mirror, what’s the first thing you say to yourself? If you are like most women, it’s not something kind or complimentary. Most of us are WAY too hard on ourselves, and the media doesn’t help with that. Think about it…can you recall ONE company that promotes happiness with what IS […]
Bodies Die But Connect Spirits Forever
March 30, 2013 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Body Image, Depression, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Recovery, Role Models, Sharing Feelings, Spirituality
My birthday has never been celebrated in the traditional sense because there was always a Lent and Easter celebration. I suppose as a child I felt left out but as an adult my birthday is meaningful in a non traditional way. A long time ago I started a tradition of giving my mother a gift […]
Dancing Again
March 25, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Dance, Dance Movement Therapy, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Freedom, Loving Your Body, Recovery, Role Models, Self Esteem, Sharing Feelings, Spirituality, Treatment, Wellness
This Guest Post graciously submitted by Mandi Degner. Last week, I finally took a long and honest look at myself in a mirror for the first time in my available memory of life. I didn’t hate her. I didn’t yell at her. I didn’t tell her she was ugly. On Tuesday, I just looked. On […]
The Generic Things That Make Us All Exquisitely Sexy
March 15, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image, Featured, Media Literacy, Mindfulness, Pregnancy, Spirituality
This guest post graciously submitted and re-posted by Kate Fridkis, from Eat The Damn Cake. Because I’ve decided to have a baby at some point, I figured I should learn more about birth. I mean, really, I should learn more about babies and toddlers and children and whatever they turn into after that, god help us, but that all […]
Tools for your Tool Box- In Need of Repair: Perfectionist Thinking and Doing
February 8, 2013 by Sondra Kronberg
Filed under Anorexia, Athletes, Binge Eating, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Drunkorexia, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Intuitive Eating, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Spirituality
Tools for your Tool Box – In Need of Repair: Perfectionist Thinking and Doing Not feeling good about yourself often leads to the quest for perfection. The need for perfection is to establish value or disguise feelings of worthlessness and often woven into the cloth of most eating disorders. This quest has many pitfalls in […]
Faith in NYC
January 11, 2013 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Activism, Activism, Advocacy, Body Image, Bulimia, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Media Literacy, Politics, Recovery, Spirituality, Theatre, Writing and Poetry
Join NORMAL nonprofit, Poetic Theater Productions and Timberline Knolls for a stunning one-woman spoken word poetry event faith written and performed by Caroline Rothstein Saturday, January 26, 2013 8pm New York City (download release here) Written and performed by Caroline Rothstein Directed by Alex Mallory “Me, drowning in my flannel pajama pants, searching for […]
