by Andrea Owen | May 1, 2009 | Body image, Divorce, Empowering Women, How to Kick Ass, Relationships
Sometimes I think revenge is about as natural as childbirth. Everyone has felt it, I think even Gandhi must have had feelings of revenge against someone that had wronged him although he never in his right mind acted on them. But I think it’s our natural defensive...
by Andrea Owen | Apr 24, 2009 | Body image, Empowering Women, Inner-critic, Motherhood, Perfectionism, self esteem, working out
You may have noticed I've been posting lately about body image and self esteem and some people that know me personally may wonder where the heck this came from. Others may be confused if sometimes I post about something that isn't about body image or self esteem so I...
by Andrea Owen | Apr 17, 2009 | Body image, Empowering Women, Inner-critic, Motherhood, Perfectionism, Pregnancy, self esteem
Preface: As promised, I am posting the letter I wrote to my body. Writing this letter has been the single most powerful thing in healing my body image issues. I encourage you to do the same. Maybe you don't feel the need to apologize to your body like I did, but the...
by Andrea Owen | Apr 14, 2009 | Body image, How to Kick Ass, Perfectionism, self esteem
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” -Buddah If you were on the call this evening with Jenny and I, you hopefully gained some great information about self esteem and how it effects other parts of our...
by Andrea Owen | Apr 10, 2009 | self esteem, working out
I recently read a study out of Canada where 242 breast cancer patients while on chemotherapy were randomly put into three groups: Resistance training, aerobic exercise training and a control group that did not exercise at all. They measured physical changes such as...
