by Andrea Owen | Feb 25, 2014 | Coaching, Empowering Women, How to Kick Ass, Relationships, self esteem, working out
I’ve always been a happy person. However, now that I’m almost 39, I look back at my 20’s and realize I was happy on a surface level. Back then I didn’t feel a deep sense of fulfillment and joy. Being surface happy is sort of like always having sex with no orgasm. It’s...
by Andrea Owen | Sep 4, 2012 | Divorce, Empowering Women, How to Kick Ass, Relationships, working out
Thanks for reading this post! If you're brand new around here, please note that getting over heartbreak is no longer the central theme of my work. More recently, I write books, (here and here) host a podcast and you can look around the site to check out the retreats I...
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by Andrea Owen | Jul 18, 2012 | Body image, Empowering Women, Guest post, How to Kick Ass, Inner-critic, working out
Guest post by Amber Karnes “Oh my god, my cellulite is disgusting. I'm not even GOING to the beach this summer. I am so fat.” “You think YOU look bad? You should see my boobs, they're nonexistent, yet somehow my arms are flabby. Gross.”...
by Andrea Owen | Mar 13, 2012 | Body image, Featured, How to Kick Ass, Perfectionism, self esteem, working out
I've been exercising most of my life. I've belonged to a gym consistently since I was 19 years old. Small gyms, all women's gyms, big chain gyms and body building gyms. In 2005 I worked corporately for the American Council on Exercise and during that time got...
by Andrea Owen | Feb 29, 2012 | Body image, How to Kick Ass, working out
Exercise is a big part of my life. I was an active kid, lucky enough to have parents that instilled a value around exercise and made it fun. I've also been through years where I didn't exercise at all, or used exercise as a way to purge calories and/or punish myself....
by Andrea Owen | Feb 29, 2012 | Empowering Women, working out
I firmly believe exercise is a key component to living your kick-ass life. Sorry folks, no way around it, but honoring your body through movement, is muy importante. I wish I could say “kicking ass at life” was all you needed, but no. Too bad, because I'm...
