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Love Your Body Series: Do You KNOW Your Body?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 10, 2020 | Healthy Living

It crept up on my so slowly I didn’t know it wasn’t normal. (and this is going to get way too TMI, so I’m sorry!). It started in my late 30s with having to use super-plus tampons. Then I had to start wearing tampons, and not just pads, to bed...

Let’s learn to have FUN again! | Reader Highlights from the Week

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Feb 7, 2020 | Healthy Living

When was the last time you ran so fast you could hardly feel your feet hit the ground? What about dancing crazily in the kitchen to your favourite song, or feeling the rush of going down a hill really fast on your bike? Moving is FUN when we actually let...

PODCAST EXTRAS: How Do You Feel Comfortable with Your Body?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 6, 2020 | Podcasts

Do you like your body? Like even a little bit? I sure hope so! But many of us have real problems embracing our bodies, and so for the month of February we’re going to talk about how to love your body. And in today’s podcast, we start that conversation....

The Love Your Body Series: Treating Your Body as a Friend, Not an Enemy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 3, 2020 | Healthy Living, Series

Can you truly believe that your body is your friend? How many of you look in the mirror and feel like weeping? You hate shopping for jeans because nothing ever fits right. You do your best not to think about anything below the neck throughout the day. When you sit...

How to Reconnect with Your Body if You’re an Abuse Survivor (or Trauma Survivor)

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 4, 2019 | Abuse

When you’re abused, a common defense mechanism is dissociation–when you mentally “flee” your body and try to be anywhere but here. That helps you live through trauma. But it also creates a whole heap of problems down the road when you’re...

Finding a Bra that Actually Fits: Solutions to 3 Common Bra Dilemmas

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 28, 2019 | Spicing Things Up

Lots of us have challenges finding a bra that actually fits. I wrote last week about how much fun I had fitting bras in Kenya – it was amazing to see how much getting a bra means to the girls we meet in Kenya. Our fittings were done over top of our t-shirts and...