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Get Going: How to Love Your Body — Part One

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by Holly Hickman on 03/09/2010

Step number one?

“Be present.  Be present in your body.”

So says Shannon Mairs, a remarkable woman who empowers people — women in particular — to fully inhabit and love their bodies.

photo courtesy of Shannon Mairs

How does she do it?
Click HERE to find out.

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Weekend Happy! Travel Version

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by Holly Hickman on 02/26/2010

Hello, Gorgeous!

First of all, welcome, Mamapedia readers! Also, allow me to heartily thank everyone who emailed and commented after my weight loss post the other day.  The answer to the most frequently asked question: yes indeedy, we’ll be going into specifics and expanding the series.

There are sane, rational, downright pleasant ways to lose weight, keep it off, and get healthy.  If you’d like, you and I shall walk through them together; I’ll even hold your hand.  We can sing kum-bah-ya, or, if you’d rather not experience the shrieking that is my warbling, not.  (Like Elizabeth Gilbert says in Eat Pray Love, I, too, am the world’s most affectionate life form.)

Let’s start now: I’ve actually folded one of those nifty Stay Fit tips into today’s Weekend Happy.

Join me as we sail upwards into the air…

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If you want to lose weight, help someone else lose weight.

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So says Craig Ballantyne, a jaw-droppingly fit, soft-spoken, highly intelligent young man I had the pleasure of meeting while squealing like an idiot over Queen Latifah and Wyclef during some midnight South Beach Stupid Bowl shenanigens. I should clarify: CB was not squealing.  He is Canadian and therefore modest and classy.  I, however, was so [...]

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