Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

Do you love your body?All of it? I didn’t used to. There was a time in my life where I couldn’t think of a single thing I loved about my body. Three months

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

When I first met Angela and told her I could help her learn to love and accept herself and her body again, she was skeptical. She flat out didn’t think it would work.

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

If you had asked me if I loved myself back in 2012, I would have said, “Yes, of course!” But I was wrong. You see, I thought that if I had high self-esteem,

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

Alright ladies, repeat after me: I am strong. I am courageous. I am beautiful. I am powerful. I am enough. I received a question from a reader of Aspire Magazine about how I

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

When I first met Angela and told her about my 30 Days to BodyLove program, she was skeptical. She flat out didn’t think it would work for her. I remember our conversation like

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

“You don’t understand,” my client Amy said to me. “I pinch areas of fat when I look in the mirror. I can’t ever imagine looking in the mirror and thinking that I’m beautiful.”

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

“When was the last time you took a day off,” my friend Renee asked me. “A what?” I replied. She rolled her eyes at me. “A day off. No email, no Facebook, no

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

It was the week after Thanksgiving and I found myself stressed, sad, and sleep-deprived. Too much work and taking care of everyone else and too little self-care. So I went where I tend

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

2013: the Year of the Cosmic 2×4 – at least it was for me. For most of the year, I felt like Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump. The hits kept coming so fast

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

2013 was a pivotal year for me –I got a divorce, moved, broke my heel for the second time in a year, and turned 40. But none of those were what shook me.

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

We blame our bad moods and chocolate cravings on PMS. We gripe about our cramps and call our monthly ‘visitor’ “The Curse.” We tell people we’re on our period and they say, “I’m

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Mary E. Pritchard, PhD, HHC

When I ask women what they are passionate about, most are stumped.Who has time to be passionate about anything? By the time you make breakfast and the children’s lunches, get everyone off to

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