by Andrea Owen | Aug 21, 2009 | Body image, Motherhood, Pregnancy
In the past few months I've talked a lot about eating disorders and my own struggle with disordered eating and exercise. I've had to really think about my relationship with food and quite honestly, I thought it was a crock that people even had a “relationship...
by Andrea Owen | Aug 14, 2009 | Body image, Motherhood
I recently read an article about Miley Cyrus' “pretend pole dancing” at the Teen Choice Awards. Miley is 16 years old. I finally saw the video of the performance and although it wasn't as bad as I originally thought, but as a mother, I definitely raised an...
by Andrea Owen | Aug 11, 2009 | Body image, Empowering Women, Inner-critic, Perfectionism, Relationships, self esteem
I’ve recently done some thinking about control. In my “old life” I was a complete control freak. Before my wedding to my first husband I even controlled everything about my bridal shower. I was so picky about the decorations I went out and bought them myself. I wanted...
by Andrea Owen | Aug 5, 2009 | Body image, working out
This is my first post about a celebrity. I usually avoid this because I think the sensationalizaiton of Hollywood is ridiculous and out of hand. And you probably already know how I feel about the media. But this struck me for 2 reasons. One, how my heart goes out to...
by Andrea Owen | Jul 20, 2009 | Body image, Empowering Women, Motherhood, Relationships, self esteem
I was a guest blogger for a friend of mine on his fantastic site, “It Starts With Us”. Please check it out here. Feel free to comment on his blog and thanks for reading!
by Andrea Owen | Jul 11, 2009 | Body image, Empowering Women, How to Kick Ass, Kick-ass women, Perfectionism, self esteem, working out
I'm dedicating this blog post to anther blog that I found, written by a 25 year old woman named Caitlin Boyle living in Orlando, Florida. She has two blogs, one where she chronicles her fitness and nutrition lifestyle and the other one which she calls, Operation...
