When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.