A Great Campaign to Ban “Fat Talk”

An excellent start at changing beliefs about body image! It's time we shift our focus and our perspective.

Do I Look Fat? Don't Ask. A Campaign to Ban “Fat Talk”

Good news from the United Nations......

Women's issues are being made a priority. When the world helps women, women help the world.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35224&Cr=gender&Cr1=

Jessica's "Daily Affirmation"

Little Girls Dance Routine to "Single Ladies" by Beyonce @ WOD

Quote of the month: Tuli Kupferberg

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

-Tuli Kupferberg

Happy International Women's Day!

On this day, when I think about my friends and sisters around the globe, I realize again how very blessed I am by the mere virtue of being a United States citizen. I have every freedom, every privilege and every opportunity to live to my potential. The pursuit of happiness is my birth right in my nation's constitution.

I embrace all that I have in mind, body and spirit and I send pause to those who think of the "American dream" as a race to accumulate material wealth to look again at all of the gifts that surround them that are readily available in this country!! Stop for a moment, take a deep breath and look at our abundant lives through new eyes. Just appreciate the basic things that many don't have: clean water, access to health care and free education in public schools.

And, knowing that ultimately, we are all connected and global citizens. As Virginia Woolf said beautifully: As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

The price of suppressing the girl cells - Eve Ensler

Check out Eve Ensler's speech at the TED conference. She addresses the price of the "missing feminine principle" for both girls and boys. The text is a brief synopsis of the 30 minute video.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/02/ensler.TED.talk.girl.power/index.html