The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.

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

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

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

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.