Joyful and empowering with vibrant illustrations throughout, this guided journal encourages readers to accept, love, and appreciate their body as it is. Body positivity advocate Virgie Tovar shares the role of journaling in her own relationship to her body and offers writing prompts; visual prompts that include drawing, coloring, connecting the dots, and more; as well as inspiring short essays. Anyone looking to shed body shame and judgment and embrace acceptance and positivity will appreciate the range of activities, insightful guidance, uplifting tone, and fun, inclusive artwork that celebrates bodies of every shape and size.

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it―and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she’s been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and how to reject diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.

It's time to ditch harmful, outdated beauty standards and build real, lasting body positivity. It's time for a self-love revolution! Every day we see movies, magazines, and social media that make us feel like we need to change how we look. This takes a toll on how we think about ourselves-and how we allow others to treat us. And while many teens feel shame about their body, being a teen girl of color can be hard in unique ways. Maybe you feel alienated by the mainstream image of beauty, which is still thin, white and able-bodied. In addition to that, you may also feel pressure from within your community to measure up to a different-but equally unfair-beauty standard. So, how can you start feeling good about yourself when you're surrounded by these unrealistic-and problematic-ideas about your body? In The Self-Love Revolution, leading body image expert and creator of #LoseHateNotWeight Virgie Tovar offers an unapologetic guide to help you question popular culture and cultivate radical body positivity. With this groundbreaking book, you'll identify and challenge mainstream beliefs about beauty; understand the unique tools girls of color have to counter negative body image; and build real, lasting body empowerment. You'll also learn how to call out diet culture, and discover ways to move beyond your own inner critic and start building the unconditional love for yourself that you deserve. It's time to explode society's beauty standards, stop messing with diets, wear what you want, and recognize that your body is your business. This book will help you find your way to radical body positivity, one step at a time.

Silent No More is an autobiography dealing with the much too common issue of Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Childhood Bullying, and Sexual Assault. Hear how one woman broke the generational curse of abuse in the family, and how she broke free from childhood bullies, this story will make you laugh, cry, but most of all it will hopefully make you STAND UP and SPEAK OUT against Domestic Violence and Abuse. Included in this book is a two page journal at the end of each chapter, scriptures, Domestic Violence and Assault statistics and a section for note taking. This book is a must read.

Woman to Woman: Spiritual Strategies For the Everyday Woman is a book on Spiritual Warfare on a level that EVERYONE can understand, and it will inspire, empower and encourage women from all walks of life to love themselves, eternally. Through biblical accounts and personal experiences, author, Virgie Townsend will inspire the level of your thinking and cause you to be mindful to take time out to love and treat yourself to a pleasurable life. Each woman will learn biblically how to journey through life and be encouraged to not neglect becoming the woman of Destiny that God has called you to be. Through daily reflection and meditation, prayer and inspiration, get ready for the ride of your life. You will be empowered to success.

"I SURVIVED EGYPT" IS A TELLING STORY OF ONE WOMAN'S STRUGGLE AND JOURNEY TO SURVIVE LIFE'S MANY OBSTACLES.

The book is written to encourage and motivate the shy, lonely, quiet and anyone that needs support or encouragement.From My Windows is about someone watching and learning about the world through a glass window. You can never imagine what can be seen through a plane glass window or a door.Have you ever just sat and watched people do all kind of things? When they think no is looking. People have a habit of picking their teeth or nose in the public. We do strange things some times. Don't We?This book is about hope, peace, joy and your wake up call. To be all that you can be or every thing you wanted to be. Just be you There is only one you, be the real you.This book is to help you to know, that you are never alone. There is an unseen eye watching over you. He watches your every move. That's his love for you. Just think about it. Look around and you may feel him close by.

In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the many fabulous aspects of being fat--building fat-positive spaces, putting together fat-friendly wardrobes, turning society's rules into personal politics, and creating supportive, inclusive communities. Writers, activists, performers, and poets--including April Flores, Alysia Angel, Charlotte Cooper, Jessica Judd, Emily Anderson, Genne Murphy, and Tigress Osborn--cover everything from fat go-go dancing to queer dating to urban gardening in their essays, exploring their experiences with the word fat, pinpointing particular moments that have impacted the way they think and feel about their bodies, and telling the story of how they each became fat revolutionaries. Ground-breaking and long overdue, Hot & Heavy is a fierce, sassy, thoughtful, authentic, and joyous collection of stories about unapologetically--and unconditionally--loving the body you're in.

Title: The soldier's hymn-book: for camp worship.Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Virginia ConferenceSoldiers' Tract SocietyPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP05365300CollectionID: CTRG05-B10381PublicationDate: 18620101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Hymn texts only; no music. Includes index.Collation: 64 p.; 12 cm