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To Be Truly Body Positive is to Be Actively Anti-Racist
To Be Truly Body Positive is to Be Actively Anti-Racist posted by Connie Sobczak / June 3, 2020 “When we start seeing the inherent beauty of every person, we can’t shoot the gun that we have in our hand and kill a person of color.” —Mandie C., Be Body Positive...
A Virtual Hug and a Gift of Self-Care
A Virtual Hug and a Gift of Self-Care The first version of this blog was shared in a newsletter on March 28, 2020 Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have been on lockdown since March 17th, though I started my self-quarantine a few weeks before. After picking up a...
Inhabiting Our Bodies with Kindness, and Facing Climate Change
Inhabiting Our Bodies with Kindness, and Facing Climate Changeposted by Elizabeth Scott / January 16, 2020Elizabeth, Elizabeth's mom Lynn, Connie's mom Andrea, ConnieJoanna Macy (1), my first Buddhist teacher, has been on the front lines of environmental activism for...
This International Women’s Day, Let Young Women Speak
This International Women's Day, Let Young Women Speakposted by Connie Sobczak / March 7, 2019 In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, I want to share the words of Athena Nair, a high school senior. I met Athena last fall when her school hired us to do a Be...
Kindness During Times of Chaos
Kindness During Times of Chaosposted by Connie Sobczak / October 7, 2018 The Ford/Kavanaugh situation has heightened my exploration of what it will take to end the destructive, unjust, white male-dominated systems that have been in place for thousands of years. On the...
Where Self-Love Fits in the #MeToo Movement
Where Self-Love Fits in the #MeToo Movementposted by Naomi Finkelstein / January 19, 2018 As I read the latest in the past year’s shockwave of unexpected celebrity human shortcomings (turns out Aziz Ansari is also not exempt from being inappropriately persistent and...
Exploring the Intersection of Gender Identity and Body Positivity
Exploring the Intersection of Gender Identity and Body Positivityposted by MD Spicer-Sitzes / November 12, 2017I had the pleasure of attending Dr. Lindo/a Bacon’s revolutionary workshop, When Self-Love Isn’t Enough, in the Bay Area last week. If you don’t know,...
