It’s Day 1 of the Love Yourself Up Challenge and we’re beginning our dive into self-love and self-care with the single most important thing when it comes to this topic: the commitment to yourself. If you’re like me, you’ve spend most of your...
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Joanna L K Moore. Body love, self-love, confidence, and self-esteem are abstract terms that no one ever really defines. We all know we’re supposed to be confident and like our bodies the way they are, but most of the...
„Pregnant.“ My gynecologist looked at me in surprise. She’d known me for more than a decade. Had gone through my eating disorder with me, had seen me at my worst and knew that I had just separated from my husband. Again. Mere 2 days before I sat on her chair. I...
You used to have it. That rock solid confidence. That playful way of engaging with yourself. You used to be fascinated with your feet, your fingers tasted like honey on a buttered bread. You used to feel light, excited, free. Most of all, you followed your inner core,...
There’s a lot of talk about how to change your relationship with food in order to finally be free, happy and healthy and it got me thinking: Do we have to have a relationship with food? Whether good or bad, is a relationship with food healthy and even sane? I say NO....
For most of my life, I’ve hated my body. I grew up wishing to be skinnier, wanting to look like Britney Spears, with toned abs and a perfect butt. I longed to have upper arms like Heidi Klum and long legs like Giselle Bundchen. All in all, I wanted to be everyone but...
Today, I am super excited to share an interview with Llinos Mai Thomas with you. Llinos Mai Thomas is a writer, cancer survivor, mental health warrior and creative soul from Cardiff, UK. She shares her health journey to inspire others on the road to healing, and has...
Vogue. Elle. Vanity Fair. Cosmopolitan. Shape Magazine. Bravo. Seventeen. Marie Claire. Glamour. Allure. The list of magazines published on a weekly basis is huge. Every week, you see new pictures of beautiful, flawless, skinny, (often) teenage models–on the way...
Day 9 of the Body-Confidence Makeover Challenge is here and today – as you’ve guessed – it’s Summer’s turn again! Take it away, Summer: http://summerinnanen.com/10daybcm-day9 SHARE YOUR MAKEOVER SUCCESS! I want you to report your actions...
Self-compassion is a skill most of us women lack. Every day, we beat ourselves up for little things, big things, unimportant things and critical things. No matter what we do, we feel we never quite measure up, right? You are late for work because of a big traffic jam...
