by Andrea Owen | May 31, 2010 | Coaching, Inner-critic, Motherhood, Perfectionism
Forgive me, blogosphere, for I have sinned. The last few weeks I've been ranting about taking steps back to re-evaluate ourselves and what we're doing. I wrote about just “being” instead of “doing” all the time, and before that I wrote about...
by Andrea Owen | May 20, 2010 | Body image, Empowering Women, Inner-critic, Perfectionism
I saw this bumper sticker the other day and it conjured up many bad memories. I used to live my life by this mantra. No, I mean LIVE MY LIFE. If it wasn't going to be done 150,000,000 percent, then don't do it at all. Isn't that what it means to “Go Big or Go...
by Andrea Owen | May 18, 2010 | Body image, Coaching, Empowering Women, Inner-critic, working out
trig·ger –verb to initiate or precipitate (a chain of events, scientific reaction, psychological process, etc.) to fire or explode (a gun, missile, etc.) by pulling a trigger or releasing a triggering device to become active; activate First thing Monday morning...
by Andrea Owen | May 5, 2010 | Body image, Coaching, Inner-critic, Perfectionism, self esteem
I may have mentioned in my previous posts about what we call in the coaching world as our “saboteur”. AKA “the gremlin”. It’s that little (or sometimes not so little) voice in our head that we all have, some more than others. It tells us mean things,...
by Andrea Owen | Mar 21, 2010 | Body image, Empowering Women, Inner-critic
Recently, while on a Facebook page regarding eating disorders I noticed a few comments some people had made about eating disorders and thin people. One said, “It was great when Dove soap starting using real women in their ads” and another said, “It's...
by Andrea Owen | Jan 25, 2010 | Body image, Empowering Women, Inner-critic, Perfectionism
Last summer I wrote a post entitled, “The truth about my skinny jeans” in which I confessed that I still had my skinniest of skinny jeans. I knew it was time to get rid of them, but I didn't want to give them away to a friend (and see that friend walk...
