In the Body Image newsletter I will cover how the mass media shapes positive and negative body image issues in women. I will also provide worksheets, meditations, affirmations and hypnosis techniques that will help you tap into your personal charisma and authentic beauty.

Some studies indicate that how mothers feel about their own bodies is more detrimental to the body image of young girls than images projected in the mainstream media. Here are five tips to help mothers promote healthy body images for their daughters.

Whatever characteristics you seek in someone else, develop them first within yourself. People will always value, love, and treat you the way that you treat yourself.

I fell in love with Harriet Tubman when I was 20-years-old, I am still in love with her. Young women and teenage girls try to imitate the beauty of celebrities overlooking an abundance of heroic women that we can choose to admire not only for their external beauty-- but for their inner beauty.

There are so many people who believe that the reason they gave up on their dream is because no one believed in them. But the saddest truth to face is that they did not have the courage or self-discipline to pursue their dream anyway— because they did not believe in themselves.