A Positive Word for the Ladies. :)

You are not less woman because of your size.
You are not less woman because of your personal style.
You are not less woman because of your occupation.
You are not less woman because of your interests.

You are

EXACTLY

as much woman

as you should be.

And don't allow the status quo to convince you otherwise.

Beat Poetry for Body Image Advocacy

I KNOW the struggle. The struggle is real and the struggle is here and the struggle is NOW. Beauty is not as it appears; it is not what they of Hollywood and the mass media and diet pill companies and plastic surgeons want you to believe it is. Beauty is not Barbie. Beautiful and thin and perfect are not synonymous. Beautiful is not white, it is not black, it holds within it every color and no color at all. Beautiful is not a size, or numbers on a scale. Beautiful has no race. Beautiful has no gender. Beautiful has no age, wealth, religious or national allegiance. Beautiful is broken and gloriously imperfect. Beautiful is not something to be strived for or sought outwardly; true beauty comes from within.  Beautiful is kindness and compassion, beauty is courage and strength. Beautiful is the ability to stand back up, dust off and walk away when it's knocked down, and to be the helping hand to others when it sees them in that low, dark place. Beauty is standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. Beauty is in each and every one of us, and it is up to us to recognize and embrace that beauty in others...and within ourselves. Stay beautiful, my friends. ♡

A Shift Of the (Variable) Gears

Long time no see, interwebs! I apologize for that.

Wow. So much has happened since my last post that I'm not sure where to start!  I've since collected more bikes, got a regular working stiff job at an awesome motorsports shop, and while the pounds have been melting away with the increased activity...I've kinda stopped caring. In fact,  I've had a paradigm shift in my focus...to body positivity, no matter the shape. I've taken up body image advocacy, because we should all love the person we are, as we are, inside and out.

In other news, I didn't realize what a challenge this would be, blogging from my phone. More updates from a more blog-worthy machine, and soon!

Stay beautiful and stay riding, my friends!
 --Anna.