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Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 1 Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories Body Awareness issue What do you love about your body? Jennifer Almanza: Midwife with a cause Lara Tate: Menopausal Superhero! Learning how to live and die Girls on the Run Women at the Fringe DAWN ROSSBACH DAWN AUGUST 2017 Volume 33, Issue 8 www.womenspress.com Are you ... 2 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 Program Information Program Outcomes I have become more WHO? articulate in voicing my under- The Women In Leadership program is designed for you We welcome all women. 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PAUL, MN 55114 GOSEEDO/CALENDAR ...................... 22 CLASSIFIEDADS.. 36 WOMENSPRESS.COM Women at the Fringe ... and more 4 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 THISISSUE NORMASMITHOLSON Bodywise KATHYMAGNUSON “What are you doing when you feel most beautiful?” Have you just had your hair colored or had a manicure? Are you wearing a cute, new dress? Are you working out at the gym? Are you looking at yourself naked in front of a mirror? “What are you doing when you feel attitudes that to be beautiful a woman most beautiful?” is a question posed must be thinner, taller, bustier, blonder by Jacqueline Novogratz in Krista and whiter, we are not buying it. We Tippett’s book, “Becoming Wise.” We are not buying the messages that if are both part of a women’s leadership only we bought more make up, wore group that is reading and discuss- higher heels and giggled more we ing this book. In it, Tippett examines might rise closer to “beautiful.” We wisdom from many perspectives — claim our right to self-define beauty. Coming up: the poetry of words and language, For this “body awareness”-themed September’s theme is Callings. lessons of faith, hope and love, and the issue we asked readers, “What is What call to action have you wisdom we can become aware of by something you love about your body answered? How did you recognize listening to our bodies. Tippett shares and why?” Readers told us that their it as your call? Tell us about it. experiences both personal and from bodies can run fast, bend well. They Send up to 150 words to the many thoughtful people she has love their scars earned in surviving [email protected] interviewed for her radio program, cancer and that loving one’s self is a Deadline: August 10 “On Being.” She is a wise woman. radical act. One woman tells of the legs September Advertising Sections: So, you may be she loves for helping her to walk away • Elder Guide wondering, what from an abusive relationship. • Grrrls Go Green Guide I taste, smell, do beauty and Our readers remind us of our awe- • Just for Kids Guide see, and hear, and leadership have in some abilities to move, think and take • Spirituality Guide common? (And, why action. Whether we decide to become my“ mind entwines • GoSeeDo/Calendar Guide is the Women’s Press mothers or are able to be mothers or Deadline: August 10 with my senses writing about beauty not, women’s bodies can have the Watch for the annual Minnesota — a topic common and experiences. amazing capacity to create life. In this Women’s Directory with the I live and move and to most “traditional” issue, we talk with nurse September issue. women’s magazines midwife, Jennifer Almanza have my being ... and an industry of about her professional and October’s theme is “the earth is therefore, which we typically personal experience of this my home.” Tell us: What is your