When I’m down, distracted, unclear, and unsure of what’s next. I ask myself, “What would Frida do?” If you don’t know her yet, Frida Kahlo is/was a fiercely creative, greatly influential Mexican painter and activist. I’m not sure how true it was to Frida’s actual lived experience, but the movie “Frida,” directed by Julie Taymor, …
I’m going to bet that one part of you knows you’re a miraculous, phenomenal badass. And yet, another part of you — perhaps loudest and most consistent — feels like a failure or a fraud, regardless of how many extra hours you put in or how close to ‘perfect’ you come. You probably likely tell …
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I remember when I first read these marvelous lines by Mary Oliver: “You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” I was 24 years old, in a …
But isn’t this the opposite of what we’ve been taught? Especially as girls and women we’re taught to say NO to food, to savoring, to slowing down, and to pleasures that have nothing to do with buying or acquiring anything — NO to that which nourishes and feeds us. At the same time, we are …
