Written by Lexie & Lindsay Kite, Ph.D. Excerpt from their new book, More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument Not an Ornament "In our doctoral research among eighteen-to thirty-five-year old women and in the online body image course we have offered for several years to girls and women ages fourteen and up, we started with that same simple question: How do you feel about your body? What we’ve found over and over is that when you ask women about their body image — in other w

Written by Marla Boehr Browsing through an array of glossy beauty magazines, strolling the main floor of the local department store, or simply taking a quick scroll through Instagram is a window into our culture’s obsession with youthful beauty ideals. Youthful skin is indeed beautiful – smooth, plump, and supple, it can almost have an otherworldly glow at times. I often caress my young children’s cheeks and simply marvel at their perfect pores. Although it seems like lightye

Poem Written by Mary Heaven Hands are portals to our hearts, they are an extension of the way we love. Think about it. How many times has someone been transformed by the gesture of a loving hand extended to them? A hand says, hold me while we cross the road, I will keep you safe. A hand says, I yearn to interlock our fingers, I love you. A hand says, let me be the guide, I will detect what is causing your pain, I can heal you. A hand says, it’s nice to meet you, I am so hap