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Featured Weekly Tips

MENTAL WELLNESS: “Soul Food” by Golda

From Cognitive Dissonance To Cognitive Resonance

Perhaps this has happened to you. You’ve read fat acceptance and Health At Every Size blogs. You believe in loving your body, and have gotten to the point at which you really see the beauty in bodies of all shapes and sizes. And yet, when it comes to your own body, you get stuck. You know you should love your body, but you’re not quite there yet. Fat acceptance folks often talk about having been through this cognitive dissonance phase. This week, break the dissonance. Tell yourself that negative voice is wrong. Are you ready to move through your cognitive dissonance? Then check out the full story here: Courtney Love’s Nose, Cognitive Dissonance & Body Image.

NUTRITION: “Feed Your Life” by Sara

Lean on Your Strengths

This week, make a list of 3 strengths that you have. Write them down. If you have trouble or are a little modest, try to think like your friends, coworkers or boss. What do you do well? What’s great about you? Then use those strengths when you find that there’s a change in your life you want to make or a goal you want to accomplish. Lean on your strengths and brainstorm how those very strengths can lead you towards success. Put your list up somewhere around you, like at your desk, on the fridge or by the bathroom mirror and let it remind you that this is only the beginning of the list of great things about you that can help you achieve your desires. Check out this week’s Feed Your Life to learn more about utilizing this tip.

FITNESS: “Fitness For All” by Sue

Your Body Is a Bundle of Fun

This week, learn how to have fun with your body again! Ever thought that having to move your body scares the heck out of you and it would be easier not to move? Children are wired to seek fun. Have you ever spent an hour running and playing with a child - they’re such a delight. Be inspired by childhood play. Orchestrate an afternoon with friends to play ring around a rosy, musical chairs, capture the flag, pickle, tag or any number of other games. Involve your children for a fun-filled day of movement. Or try this: go play with your dog or “borrow” a neighbor’s or friend’s. Go to the park, and throw a Frisbee or ball. Take a nice walk. If you’re a cat person, get an interactive toy or wand and play with your cat - all movement is good movement. Read Fitness For All to see what kind of positive effects these childhood antics can have on your life.

Featured Blog and Forum

• Debunking Fashion Taboos: Love Your Stripes by Patricia
• Recipe: Cream Pie

Word of the Week: Generosity, by Andrea

 When people think of generosity they often think of wealthy people donating large sums of money or dedicating buildings at prestigious universities or giving up their regular lives to work in a third world country. But generosity doesn’t just have to be these “huge” acts. Generosity comes in many forms, read a few examples in our Word of the Week.

Quote of the Week:

Take time every day to do something silly.
- Philipa Walker

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