I’m pleased to present a guest post by Sarah Maria, author of the soon-to-be-released book Love Your Body, Love Your Life: 5 Steps to End Negative Body Obsession and Start Living Happily and Confidently.
Sarah is the founder of Break Free Beauty, a company dedicated to helping people love their bodies as they are. She speaks and writes on body image, self-esteem, health, success and spirituality. Sarah’s new book will be available on November 1.

Go Ahead and Pamper Yourself
By Sarah Maria
Gone are the days when self-pampering was considered overly-indulgent, self-aggrandizing or narcissistic, right? Well, if those days aren’t quite gone …read more

Not to focus only on the negative with NOW Says It’s Enough Already, equally deserving of your time and attention is the list of positive advertising.
Companies like Crystal Light, Cover Girl, Until, Mudd, Kaiser Permanente (blight on society though they are), Girl Scouts, Eileen Fisher, Kohl’s/New Balance, Liz Claiborne, Dove, Reebok and Phoenix Wealth Management all featured ads that feed the self worth of women. They deserve to be acknowledged to encourage more advertisers to pay attention to what we WANT as female consumers.
What women want is crucial knowledge for advertisers, as women have most of the spending power in a family unit.