Sometimes when you are taking two steps forward in the game of life and everything is going great, something happens out of nowhere and BAM—ten steps back. It can feel discouraging, frustrating, embarrassing, and annoying.

If you are reading this,you need to remember to keep your head up and keep moving forward at all times. Things will happen that might bring you down a little, but you need to keep focused. Life isn’t just at a constant baseline, it looks like a heart monitor--it goes up, it goes down...but it always goes back up again.

If you are reading this, I know you are young, you are smart, and you are beautiful.

"I know it seems hard sometimes, but remember one thing, through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it."--Tupac

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Check out ya girl in the review from The Broadside in Fairfax, Virginia!!

http://www.connect2mason.com/content/your-body-wonderland-love-your-body-week-promotes-healthy-body-images

George Mason University!!!

Yeah baby!!!!!

This week I was the guest speaker at George Mason Unversity in Virginia for Positive Body Image Awareness. Here are a few pictures...

book signing for beYOUtiful, February 23, 2010

being so nervous while pretending I am totally cool

Hi does anyone know where the speaker is???

How did I get into this nutshell??

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who showed up and didn't fall asleep. It means the world to me. You guys ROCK!!!!!!! If anyone from GMU was there, please drop a comment and let me know what you thought of the presentation. Or if you weren't there, drop one and let me know what you think of the blog. Thank you!!!

taken from page 52 of beYOUtiful

La Vita e Bella
Life is Beautiful

If you remember anything from this book, I want it to be this:

That life is not that serious.
Nobody knows what size your jeans are.
Nobody knows how much you weigh.
Be real.
Be confident.
Be every single inch of who you truly are.
Believe in yourself, always, at all times.
Be sure to make mistakes.
Be sure to learn from them.
SMILE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
Laugh at yourself.
Live your life the way YOU wanna live it.
You only get this one chance.
*You will be beautiful just by being who you are.*

Never forget that.

Stay beautiful, baby xoxox

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY!!!!!

I am leaving, on a jet plane, to DC tomorrow morning bright and early. I am going to George Mason University to deliver speeches to undergraduate students for Love Your Body Week. I am so excited and super anxious!!!!!!! Everyone gets SO nervous when they have to get up in front of people and speak, but then when someone else is up there it's not like you are staring at them and judging them, right??? RIGHT??? Haha just kidding. Of course not!! It's all part of getting up there and conquering your fears.

I look forward to a nice little vacation/work in DC and Virginia, hanging out with some awesome friends, and saving the world from little insecurities, one scale at a time. :)

Look in the mirror, darling. YOU....are beautiful.

Rememeber Her???

Remember when you were younger and there was always that kid that picked on you?? Told you you were ugly. You were too fat, you were too stupid. Found a fault with every single thing you did, had, or loved. Every picture of you was ugly, your hair, your teeth, your clothes, your light up velcro sneakers. You looked at that kid every day in the mirror. You felt that, you soaked it in, it impacted you. It GOT to you. Remember that kid?????

It's time to put that kid away. It's time to forget the hurtful comments about your looks, about your family, about your big Jewish nose. Leave the insecurities of your weight, your goofy smile, your shoes, behind. You are older now. You are still you. Look in the mirror and instead of seeing that kid, see yourself. All your faults, all your insecurities, and all of your beauties. Look for the positive things in yourself, and take the "bad things" you used to worry about and push them away. Embrace them, make them who you are today. Look at who you became!!!! Look at all of the things you have accomplished!!!!!!

YOU, ARE, YOU. And that's the only damn person you'll ever be.

Stay beautiful, baby. xoxox