“The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers.  I’m thinking not only of May Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.  You cannot divide creative juices from human juice...

“I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.” – Lauren Bacall Today’s guest is Elizabeth Cooper, a queer body love coach, and the creator of the Queer Body Love speaker series. In this episode we discuss: How disordered eating connects with our ideas about g...

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. – Veronica A. Shoffstall This week’s guest is Dawn Serra, sex coach, sex educator, and activist around body acceptance and sexual trauma and the co-h...

The words “I am” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.—A.L. Kitselman This week’s guest is Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., author of the new book:  Why Diets Make Us Fat: The U...

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow Today’s guest is JD Ouellette, an advocate for evidence based treatment in eating disorders,

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it. – Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth Today’s guest is Emily Lindin, creator of the Unslut Project and author of Unslut: A Diary and Memoir.

“Be careful about reading health books.  Some find day you’ll die of a misprint.” – Markus Herz This week’s guest is Alicia Melgoza, MSW, MA, founder and creator of Taking Healthy Back (TM), and is a Health Nut + Fitness Junkie Recovery Coach.

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town” – Anne Lamott This week’s guest is Dr. Judith Brisman, founder of the Eating Disorder Resource Center in New York. In this episode we discuss: Why your #DiscoveryNotRecovery is li...

“It’s never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, or a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.  We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around.

“Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork…My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.