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Juleeta Harvey

seeking His Truth about body image

Crazy Hungry: Our Starving Generation of Young Women Need TRUTH to Combat Negative Body Image (and we’re going to do something about it)

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Thanks to photographer, Kawin Harasai, for this captivating image.

2017 offered me a life-giving opportunity to write, and with that came the unique privilege to listen.  From an audience of strong, vulnerable, truth-seeking, transparent women, I have heard stories; some are hope-filled, some are heavy with desperate longing, and some stories are just now coming up for air after years of being silenced.  Each story is as unique as the individual sharing, but one thread seams together the experiences that each woman shares.

Each woman wants to know: How do I teach my daughter, my niece, my god-daughter, not to believe lies about her body? [Read more…] about Crazy Hungry: Our Starving Generation of Young Women Need TRUTH to Combat Negative Body Image (and we’re going to do something about it)

How Does Beauty Feed Your Body? I’m thinking about what you might want for Christmas…

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Horns blare in symphonic cadence, but all I hear is Christmas music accompanying the light show at Saks Fifth Avenue.  The constant hum of people invites us to receive. New York City is the most glamorous city I’ve ever seen.

Late Saturday evening, my husband and I arrived in New York on the last flight into LaGuardia, tucked in at the nearby Holiday Inn for a few hours, and rose early the following morning to catch a cab into New York City. [Read more…] about How Does Beauty Feed Your Body? I’m thinking about what you might want for Christmas…

Into the Light

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“I write out of total incomprehension that even love isn’t enough and that finally writing might be all I have and that isn’t enough.

I can never get it all down, and besides, there are times when I have to step away from the table, the notebook, and turn to face my own life.

Then, there are times when it’s only coming to the notebook that I truly face my own life. ” –Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

Last week, we took the week off.  We drove the kids to my mom’s in Seguin, TX, and we exchanged our too-fast-paced city life for expanse and pink-hued sunsets and an always-full cookie jar.  [Read more…] about Into the Light

The Arithmetic of Body Image

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The quote above, “Omnia, nos et mutamur in illis,” is brought to you straight from Caesars, Las Vegas. It translates, “All things change, and we change with them.”

Hello, my friend.

If you’re snuggling in for a few moments of quiet, hoping for some words to help you claim beauty, with confidence, for the body you’ve been given, you are in exactly the right place.

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How White Am I, Really?

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Maybe my recent reading list will add color to the post below.

I’m looking at my white skin, and I am confused.

In the midst of thought-provoking, necessarily loaded, and well-spoken conversations about race, specifically racism as it prevails amidst white people and black people, and all of the differences that secure the chasm remains irreconcilable, jammed, and full of pithy, raging anger, I attempt to listen.

As a writer who strives to distinguish body image truth vs. body image perception, which roots itself in the objectification of the body, especially as it concerns women – our historical willingness to be subservient as a means to carry on the human race, our present pursuit to secure a place that allows our intelligence to balance our humanity, and our future dream, our daughters, who we hold high that they might see beyond what present feminism limits them to believe about their potential — I find that I am bemused.  [Read more…] about How White Am I, Really?