My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

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.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.