About: April Dawn Ricchuito
Posts by April Dawn Ricchuito:
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An Open Letter to Glamour about “The Pill That Made Me Happy, Horny & Skinny.”by April Dawn Ricchuito on Jul 27, 2012 Antidepressants are not glamorous. Glamour recently published a blog post called “True Health Confession: ‘The Pill That Made Me Happy, Horny and Skinny…,’” detailing one woman’s (non-normative) experience with the antidepressant Wellbutrin. The article started with making mention of the fact that the makers of Wellbutrin, GlaxoSmithKline, were fined three billion dollars for inaccurate marketing and branding of [...] 2,642 views |
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Breathe Like a Baby: The Miracle of Pranayama.by April Dawn Ricchuito on Jun 24, 2012 Before we’re born, we don’t even have to breathe on our own. We take in oxygen through the placenta and the umbilical cord. The moment we leave the womb—the moment we are born—we are on our own. We must breathe or we will die. We gasp, we scream, we cry. Our lungs fill with air. [...] 1,352 views |
From a “Fatherless” Daughter: The Best Father’s Day Gift Ever.by April Dawn Ricchuito on Jun 17, 2012 … 684 views |
 The Freedom to F*ck Up.by April Dawn Ricchuito on Jun 10, 2012 My Hope For My Little Sister If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. ~ Jacob Hornberger Health is something that I’d like to think my family and I no longer take for granted since my mom (really my grandmother, who raised me) was diagnosed with Stage [...] 403 views |
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It Hurts & I’m Not F*cking Depressed: Chronic Pelvic Pain.by April Dawn Ricchuito on Jun 7, 2012 … 681 views |
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If Jesus Wasn’t Such a Good Guy, He’d Punch You.by April Dawn Ricchuito on May 7, 2012 … 536 views |
Buddha Got Beheaded & It Was a Bloody Beautiful Sight!by April Dawn Ricchuito on Apr 27, 2012 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King’s horses And all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again! The other day, my Buddha statue fell to the floor and his head broke off. My brother asked me how I manage to break everything I come in contact with. My [...] 363 views |
Occupy Trayvon? ~ April Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Mar 24, 2012 My family has been in the Martin family’s shoes, so I decided to support the Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin that was put together by Occupy Wall Street. 203 views |
Frankie the Yoga Loving Yorkie. {Video} ~ April Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Mar 22, 2012 Frankie, my two year old yorkie, is a huge fan of yoga. 186 views |
Desert Rose. ~ April Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Mar 14, 2012 I am making plans and the universe is laughing, like a bemused mother who finds her baby daughter playing in her makeup; she looks like a clown, but her mother sees her innocence and childlike wonder and it is everything that is beautiful. 103 views |
Soul Surfing: Om & the Ocean. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Mar 11, 2012 It can sustain life or it can kill. Float or sink. It can be gentle, or it can be rough. It is the paradoxical nature of water that makes it such a marvelous muse. 189 views |
Putting Yoga Into Practice: Building Bridges. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Feb 19, 2012 As humans, and especially as women, we are architects of the future. Build these relationships and cross these bridges. Allow yourself to be gently supported. You are building a beautiful future by forging overpasses to go above and beyond; you are building connections. You are a bridge, leading with your heart and supported by the Earth. 352 views |
A (Love) Letter To The Ladies. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Feb 18, 2012 What makes you a woman is how you breathe life into everything you come into contact with, with the breath of fresh air that you are. 1,533 views |
Beating Your Brain: Soothing the Savage within & Making the most of Music. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Feb 18, 2012 Although they say that music soothes the savage beast, you don’t need to be a savage beast to make the most of the benefits that mood boosting music can offer. 129 views |
Getting Heart Smart and Maintaining A “Heart On”. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby April Dawn Ricchuito on Feb 13, 2012 Let’s talk love. Crazy, unapologetic, fierce, fabulous SELF LOVE. We cannot love another until we love ourselves. Our relationships with others will never be any better than the relationship we have with ourselves. 246 views |
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