“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 Image
“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 Image
“Our bodies are everything. They are the tools our mothers and their mothers used to end wars. Women have used their bodies to demand the right to vote, the right to work, the right to birth control, the right to safe working conditions, the right to choose, the right to equal funding for sports and education, and the right to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The potential we squander by picking our bodies to pieces is catastrophic.” — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
