Happy Friday, every­one! Check out the video below. In it, I’m telling you all about a book that touched my heart: Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist. And I’m giv­ing away a copy! Watch the whole video for details on how you can be entered to win. XO!

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Over the week­end, I read an incred­i­ble book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown. READ THIS BOOK. I’m seri­ous. It is a 130-page pow­er­house of truth telling that will feed your spirit and inspire you to shine your authen­tic­ity out to the world. Read more

“…We all die, some sooner rather than later. We are all just a breath away from it, all the time.

Don’t fear being near death — but rather fear, dread, loathe, and do all you can to do avoid near-life expe­ri­ences. No one goes to the grave or to the nurs­ing home wring­ing their hands and gnash­ing their teeth and just wish­ing they’d served on a few more com­mit­tees, worked a few more hours. Read more

Hey every­one! Here’s a quick Sunday bonus for you. My new blog­ger friend, Christie of Honoring Health, is start­ing a vir­tual book club. The first book will be Geneen Roth’s Women, Food and God. Read more

Hey every­one! I want to make sure you know that Geneen Roth is going to be on Oprah this Wednesday, May 12^th, to dis­cuss her new book, Women, Food, and God. Geneen ended her bat­tle with com­pul­sive eat­ing over thirty years ago by say­ing yes to her­self and no the dam­ag­ing diet men­tal­ity that so many peo­ple still buy into. Her books have been a huge part of my own heal­ing, and I whole­heart­edly rec­om­mend them to any of you who have not yet made peace with food and with your body. Here is just a taste of the wis­dom Geneen has to offer: Read more

“Life may indeed be short, but it is, for a fact, wide. It is high time we started set­tling for more.” — Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love

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Well, I am feel­ing very timely today! I am a big fan of Geneen Roth’s writ­ing and her work to help women arrive at their nat­ural weights by delv­ing into the deeper issue of self-worth. I recently fin­ished her pow­er­ful new book, Women, Food, And God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, and have been plan­ning to make this my first give­away prize for a cou­ple of weeks now.

You can imag­ine my sur­prise when my April issue of O Magazine arrived last evening with a fea­ture arti­cle on this very book, includ­ing a large excerpt and an inter­view between Oprah and Geneen Roth. (Click here for the arti­cle.) Oprah calls the book “an oppor­tu­nity to finally end the war with weight and unlock the door to free­dom” and says she’s “telling every­one to read it now!”

So, as I had already planned,  I’m giv­ing away my copy of Women, Food, and God to one lucky reader!

To be entered to win, all you have to do is make a com­ment on this post, shar­ing the name of one of your favorite books or mag­a­zines. If you’ve never com­mented before, it’s time to get in the ring! Just scroll down until you see the box labeled “Say Something.” You have until this Friday, March 26^th, at mid­night, to make your com­ment. I will ran­domly select a win­ner from all who com­ment on THIS POST. Have fun and good luck!

EXTRA! EXTRA! This past Monday I had the plea­sure of read­ing What is Dying to be Born - a lovely col­lec­tion of art, poetry, and short essays by some phe­nom­e­nal women (com­piled by Lianne Raymond).  The good news for you? You can down­load it for free!  Just click on the pic­ture of the book, which will take you straight to Lianne’s post about this book, which includes the link for downloading.

I think you’ll find many nuggets of inspi­ra­tion in this lit­tle gem of a book. Here are my two favorite snip­pets: Read more