“You can’t strangle stress to death. You can try, but all that effort only increases its ferocity until it shatters your ability to contain it.” — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share Image
“Breath puts a sliver of light between impact and reflex. That’s the endgame of all that meditation-breathing stuff: interrupting knee-jerk impulsivity.” — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share Image
“Before we can make seismic professional, economic, and sociological changes, we have to squeeze out of our Spanx and remember how it feels to… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“With our physical bodies at ease, we are better able to serve, to function, and to show up when we are needed, fists raised… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“Our bodies are everything. They are the tools our mothers and their mothers used to end wars. Women have used their bodies to demand… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“WE CAN’T BE GOOD CARETAKERS, LEADERS, OR MENTORS FOR EACH OTHER IF WE CAN’T BREATHE.” — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“When we find new, powerful, healthy ways to be in our bodies — large or small — WE ARE BEAUTIFUL AND FREE” — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“No more starving. No more challenges. No more fasts. No more pills. Food is not the enemy, and fighting it is making us sick.… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“The choice to be in our bodies without shame is the most important thing each of us can do to facilitate being feminists, caretakers,… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“The potential we squander by picking our bodies to pieces is catastrophic.” — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“We need to listen for distress signals from our own bodies, as well as from those around us, and have systems in place to… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“You can’t strangle stress to death. You can try, but all that effort only increases its ferocity until it shatters your ability to contain… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“Following the 'rules' of fashion... binds our bodies. It knits our legs together and prevents us from taking up space. It compels us to… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“You don’t even have to lift your head from between your knees to take a breath, and you know you can manage that much,… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“Each step and every healthy bite takes us closer to well-being, closer to raw, unrepentant liberty at home, at work, in our neighborhoods, and… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
“With our physical bodies at ease, we are better able to serve, to function, and to show up when we are needed, fists raised… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share
