We've hit an all new low in American television

A new reality television show called Bridalplasty is scheduled to begin this month. As you finish your Thanksgiving dinner of turkey and cranberry sauce, you can tune in to see women compete for their wish list of plastic surgeries just before they say "I do."

What an incredibly sad comment on our society that women would subject themselves to this ridiculous level of scrutiny and men would condone it. Plastic surgery comes with all kinds of risk factors. For the men, if you really love someone and want to spend the rest of your life with them, do you want them engaging in multiple voluntary procedures that could potentially kill them? And, for the ladies, aren't you supposed to feel so good when you're with this person that you wouldn't change a thing?

Any couple that signs up for this insane show needs serious counseling, not a plastic surgery competition.

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.