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Owning Your Awesome: It's Not Conceited

Bonnie Crowder

When I was about nine –- the age my daughter is now –- I was told I was fat. Which was untrue, actually, but which quite literally scarred me for life. My own mother tried to teach me how to not hate myself, but she didn't walk the walk as they say, and I learned, through her actions, how not to love Me.  Read more >

Make the Decision to Own Your Sexy

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The idea of sexiness typically conveys a certain image in our minds. A woman of a certain body type, often showing off lots of that body. But that leaves a lot of us out of the picture. My body doesn't look like that and even if it did, I don't think I'd dress in that way because it's simply not my style. Does that mean I'm not sexy? According to Karen, true sexiness comes from confidence. I find it hard, sometimes, to feel confidant about things that go against the grain. It takes effort to change that thought process in my mind and to have it reflect in my every day life, to have it glow from within. It takes a decision.  Read more >

25 Things That Make Me ME

Bonnie Crowder

I was in high school during the very height of the grunge era, the Gen X era, the era in which we felt it was trendy to avoid being trendy and in which the mere idea of “trendy” was rather offensive. We searched for ways to make ourselves individuals as much as possible within the throng of Doc Martins, thrift store flannels and Pearl Jam t-shirts.  Read more >

The Ageless Woman

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To think of a woman who embodies the word ageless conjures in my mind a picture of a woman middle-aged or older. She has wrinkles and her hair is streaked with gray. Her skin is beginning to show some of the papery texture that comes with age. She is smiling.  Read more >

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Bonnie
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December 2006
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Owner of The Shape of a Mother and This is a Woman, blogs focusing on body image issues for women with the intent to shed light on what is truly normal.

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