Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

All over the world today, many girls still get the idea that their bodies are somehow not as good as a boy's body. These girls - who later grow up to be women with girls of their own - get the message that they are weaker in spirit, not worth educating, somehow cursed because of their menstrual cycle, and so forth.

Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.

I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.