“I Love You So Much”

“You have within you more love than you could ever understand.” –Rumi When I was pondering the direction I should take my article this week, my mind was flooded with a million different thoughts. What should I say about body image? How can I make it different? Will my words even be effective? Then, as […]

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Our Beautiful Stories

Stories are all around us. Television series, movies, plays, fables, and books are only a few examples of how stories collide with our lives every day. I’ve noticed that many of my older-souled relatives get a kick out of talking about their younger years, and most of those aged stories sound like they could be fictional. […]

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#FatGirlsCan

Jes Baker is a woman who is making waves with her new campaign: #FatGirlsCan. Baker owns a blog called The Militant Baker, and she advocates for loving your body and self. An overweight woman herself, Baker wrote a book called Things Will No One Will Tell Fat Girls. The overwhelmingly positive response to the book is what caused Baker […]

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Ugly by Matthew Newton

What is beauty? Webster’s dictionary defines it as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.” Man, that book has it wrong. What does Webster know anyway?  Beauty is what I see in movies and on the cover of […]

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