For most young girls, the idea of using a drill press, electric sander, or branding iron is not the first thing that comes to mind when they think of their skills.
Nancy Redd hosted a segment on HuffPost Live that explored the link between teenage bullying, low self-esteem, and plastic surgery. She spoke with Lau...
The holidays can sometimes feel like an inadvertent opportunity for people to get together and judge each other.
My kids are smart. They have a genetic predisposition. I was smart. Their dad was smart. We had high GPAs. We graduated college with suma-cum-somethings. We were a parent's dream. Until Henry graduated, couldn't get a job and had to borrow money from his parents.
Suppose you were trying to influence people's opinion about particular policies. Would it be better to talk about the specific policy, or is it more effective to focus on the values related to that policy?
I want them to become women who remember me modeling impossible beauty. Modeling beauty in the face of a mean world, a scary world, a world where we don't know what to make of ourselves.
Much as I wanted to lose the 25 pounds, believing that I shouldn't have to was more powerful. And so the weight piled on. And stayed. Finally aware of this underlying belief, I had a decision to make: pride or humility.
By Art Markman for YouBeauty When you look at the other people in your life, there are lots of ways that you are the same. You speak the same langu...
I am not "the best" at anything. I can do a few things adequately. I can drive a 5-speed on the steepest hills in San Francisco. I can captain a sailboat. I can do a back handspring (at least, I used to be able to do this). But that's hardly "the best."
Even Kim Kardashian gets insecure. In the December issue of Cosmopolitan U.K., Kim tells editors about how her boyfriend, Kanye West, improves her ...
I'm not exercising at all. And I should be. Because that is what conscientious people who respect their bodies do. Sex doesn't count. Does it count? Should I do it more aerobically? How?
Has the pressure to look perfect become so intense that an at-home makeup job doesn't cut it anymore?
To understand what successful men look for in a woman, we have to look into how roles and responsibilities have shifted over the past few years.
We are barraged in the media with "skinny" and "fat," but the "fit" is missing, and that's a problem.
It took Gabourey Sidibe 21 years to decide to be confident.
"There was a lot of skepticism when I decided to start the company. My parents gave me great advice, which was to think of negativity as noise, and believe in yourself. I took that advice to heart."
What words would I have wanted to hear that could have saved a lot of time and trouble in the years that shaped who I would later become?
It's true, we need approval. I need approval. But the approval I need is my own.
The solution to breeding self-confidence in women is to celebrate that their reality, Spanx and all, is aspirational in and of itself. That reality is all of the things that make us amazing women -- like our smarts, or our humor or how we love. Beauty is a thing, not the thing.
At 18, I thought I knew it all. I had it all, too, except that I didn't know my worth.
By Siri Carpenter Attention, shrinking violets: You're more powerful than you know. "Sorry!" I called out to my teammates during our weekly ...
I ask every woman I interview what three gifts they would give a 20-something to get through their twenties with more confidence in their own decisions.
I implore you to give yourself the grace to dream things could be different, the kindness to ask what that would mean for you, the fortitude to find out how you could realistically get there, and then have the patience and diligence to follow it though -- seeking out help when you need it
Every Democrat remembers well the pain experienced after election night 2010. That night the results left Democrats shaken and Republicans emboldened.
As we define what is, if only with our thoughts, our attention follows. Our creative mind begins to look for the reality that matches our thoughts, and we begin to naturally notice the opportunities that can help lead us to our goals.
