body

commentary about people experiencing full-bodied living

We cannot silence ourselves with the comfortable belief that our society cares equally for all people.

What is it that makes a person the very person that she is, herself alone and not another, an integrity of identity that persists over time, undergoing [bodily] changes and yet still continuing to be — until she does not continue any longer?
— Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

I am still the process of discovering what love looks like for me. As a woman, I was told what love was supposed to look and feel like, without any input from my own spirit and body.

When MaryAnne Quiroz discovered she had the opportunity to open an arts and cultural center in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff

In a clinical setting, every part of the body that is hidden away, invisible to the eye, can be compared

Everyone is born differently. This is just another kind of different. Like hair or skin.

“Everything that was happening in my body with the cancer reminded me of the carelessness with which we treat the earth, treat life, treat bodies, treat ourselves – the dishonoring.”

Facing the unknown with bravery and determination is a common theme among adventure stories. But sometimes knowing what’s coming can

Connie Van Valkenburg is an 82-year-old adventurer who can lay claim to all seven continents. She has kayaked in two

How nude modeling helps keep my body-image demons in check.

At Suzanne River’s school, students come to know their bodies from the inside out