Thursday, June 13th, 2013

Loving Yourself + Your Body and Getting The Sex Life You Deserve

Sally McGraw is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer, blogger, and communications professional.  Her blog Already Pretty helps women recognize their beauty, one post at a time.  You can befriend her on Facebook and Twitter. Have negative body image issues ever affected your relationship with your romantic partner? I have grappled with bedroom-specific body hang-ups for ages. They’ve...
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

How to Turn Jealousy into Inspiration

Not sure if you’re really, truly connecting to your power? Here’s how you’ll know: You feel jealous. Your psyche sends insightful messages continually and one of the ways it tells you that you’re not living up to your potential is when the green-eyed monster rears its ugly head. Jealously crops up when you feel ‘separate.’ When you feel a big, gaping divide between where you...
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

Why I Stopped Comparing Myself to Others

Many of us are slaves to comparison. I’m not as thin as So-and-so I don’t earn as much as she does I’m not as funny or as intelligent I’m not as tall or as pretty The list goes on. And on. I totally get it. I do it too – but (thankfully) not as often as I once did. I live in West Hollywood, California: Hollywoodland. Land of the beautiful, thin, and young. Each and every day I am...
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Monday, May 13th, 2013

Sweet Jolts of Goodness + Candy For Your Soul

We all know that life isn’t always all yoga classes + raw almonds. It’s not always scented candles and reading on the patio. Sometimes it’s self doubt and heartbreaking decisions. Sometimes it’s getting in your own way and disappointment + I-thought-this-time-would-be-different. And in those moments, we ALL (every single one of us) needs a reminder. A reminder that you can live,...
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Monday, May 6th, 2013

3 Ways To Choose Happy

  We all want to be happy, right? Right. While doing research for my first book, I uncovered a formula to help people boost innate faith, increase confidence, + attain genuine happiness + satisfaction. After years of schooling, training, and working with a plethora of clients, I have discovered the one thing we all want at the end of the day: to be happy. All my clients say: “but I...
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

REAL Soul Food

This guest post comes to us via Arielle Adelman - health, nutrition, and wellness coach. Arielle encourages her clients to relish life and overcome body image issues, eating disorders, weight loss, weight gain, depression, lack of energy, addiction, anxiety, loneliness through repairing the imbalances of the Whole Person. You can follow along on Twitter and Facebook.  Let’s talk about...
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Self Sabotage Is A Bitch

Allow me to set the scene: I’m talking to a client who has recently broken up with an amazing guy who worshiped the ground she floated over. “Why did you walk away from him?” “I don’t know, ” she said mystified and withdrawn. “Could it be because you were afraid of having what you wanted?”  I offered. Lightbulb.  Yes, that’s it. Self...
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

On Behalf of Knowing

You know: what to say + why to say it; he won’t change his mind; she gave the best she could–so stop expecting more. you have a choice and are not, in fact,  ”stuck.” You know what to do. You know that you’ve told yourself + the world half lies. It’s time to choose differently You know how you feel even when you deny you do. But knowing  is a bit scary....
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Monday, February 18th, 2013

Please Stop Talking

This is an excerpt from my book The Chemistry of Love - it’s a hip, digital guide to logic gaps, lustful longing + why we (temporarily) lose control.  Interested?  Scoop up a copy quick like because at the end of February I’m retiring it to make space for bigger + better things.  You can get another sneak peek here.  Ladies: This might go without saying, but here’s a...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

The Perfectly Imperfect Project: Real Self Care

I’m a huge, huge proponent of self-care.  So I was thrilled when Mara Glatzel and Tamarisk Saunders-Davies asked me to take part in The Perfectly Imperfect Project. I do my best to give my mind, heart, and body the love they deserve.   Sometimes that means letting go of relationships that aren’t working. Sometimes that means forgiving. Sometimes that means finally hiring an intern to help...
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