by Andrea Amador | Jan 11, 2015 | Creating Confidence, Setting Boundaries, Sexy At Every Size, Supreme Self-Care
I confess. I’m in a love/hate relationship with the beauty and fashion industry. It makes me crazy to see so much emphasis placed on how we look. The saying goes, “Beauty is only skin deep.” Not true. What really matters is how we see ourselves; our...
by Andrea Amador | Jan 11, 2015 | Creating Confidence, Sexy At Every Size
Feeling Beautiful is a Choice All too often we blame ourselves for saying we want to change and then we find ourselves resisting moving forward and taking the actions necessary to make the shifts. We fail to accomplish the goals we set and we beat up on ourselves and...
by Andrea Amador | Jan 10, 2015 | Body Respect, Bust Out of Body Shame, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Creating Confidence
The fashion and beauty industry suggests that we just need to buy the right dress, cream or get some surgery and we’ll be fine. But we’re not. Many women admit that a bad hair day or a glance in the mirror is often enough to make the rest of their day go south. Find...
by Andrea Amador | Jan 2, 2015 | Binge-Busting, Bust Out of Body Shame
With the holidays here, and reunions with distant cousins and relatives hanging in the air, it puts a lot of pressure on women to worry about the way they look. Nobody wants to face the dreaded question, “Have you gained weight since the last time I saw...
by Andrea Amador | Dec 29, 2014 | Binge-Busting, Body Respect, Bust Out of Body Shame, Coaching, Creating Confidence, Stress-Relief, Supreme Self-Care
If you are a binge eater, you probably have a tendency to feel the need to punish yourself by dwelling on what and how much you’ve eaten and beating up on yourself for your mistakes. Find out how this bitter bit of body hating will wind up biting you in the butt....
by Andrea Amador | Dec 17, 2014 | Body Respect, Bust Out of Body Shame, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Creating Confidence, Sexy At Every Size
As a coach, my deepest passion is to reach out and touch women who struggle with negative body images, offering them the practical tools they need to change their lives in very real way. Last year I decided to combine my newfound appreciation of fashion, my curvy...
by Andrea Amador | Nov 27, 2014 | Binge-Busting, Bust Out of Body Shame, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Coaching, Creating Confidence, Depression, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Inspiration, Intuitive Eating, Make Peace with Food, Power of Role Models, R.E.C.L.A.I.M. System, Raising Body Happy Kids, Self-Compassion As Strength, Setting Boundaries, Stress-Relief, Supreme Self-Care, Tame Your Inner Critic
On certain occasions, especially big holidays like Thanksgiving everyone tends to overeat. Despite what you may have been led to believe about overeating, it’s really no big deal. Here are several ways that you can really enjoy your day! On certain occasions,...
by Andrea Amador | Nov 16, 2014 | Power of Role Models
The lovely lady pictured left is Mia Amber Davis. Before she tragically died in 2010, she was a successful plus model, actress and producer who was a fierce activist for size acceptance. Hers was the lovely face gracing many of the Ashley Stewart campaign ads. In...
by Andrea Amador | Oct 17, 2014 | Bust Out of Body Shame, Creating Confidence, Depression, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Mind/Body Connection, R.E.C.L.A.I.M. System, Stress-Relief, Supreme Self-Care, Tame Your Inner Critic
If you’ve suffered through abusive relationships at any time in your life, you know they leave scars on your soul because they break you down and make you feel helpless and afraid of everything. This is because if you’ve been tramatized, and have...
by Andrea Amador | Oct 15, 2014 | Body Respect
Is your body giving you signals that you’re not as healthy as you used to be? If you’re getting winded when you climb up a flight of stairs or feeling aches and pain in your joints, you may be tempted to think that you’re getting old, but your body...
