Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

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A student and part-time teacher’s aide near Peoria, Illinois, Malson told me she always put herself “last on the list” and put her career on hold for her husband’s. By telling stories about her life, she explains how you can live the life you were meant to and provides tips at the end of each chapter to help you get there. She lays out this principle in the intro of Girl, Wash Your Face: “You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for how happy you are. I read up on it, and I was inspired to make changes to my life and not wait until the first of the year, but do it now.

Luckily, our bodies are very good at telling us when they are being overworked, but it’s up to us to recognize the signs and take the necessary actions to listen to our bodies. After BuzzFeed reached out to Hollis for comment, to which she didn’t respond, some of the posts the outlet reviewed mysteriously disappeared from Hollis’s Instagram page.You can choose to continue to abuse your body because it’s all you know … You can choose to settle for a half-lived life because you don’t even know there’s another way … But please, please stop making excuses for the whys. Don’t marry the guy who you “give your virginity to because you don’t know how else to keep him interested. After backlash mounted, she addressed the furor in a long Instagram caption, in which she emphasized that “obviously” that quote is “an immortal line from a Maya Angelou poem,” and claimed that the absence of attribution wasn’t all her fault. I was making really poor choices, and I thought, gosh, I don’t want to go through the rest of my life like this. This attitude has a historical context in the Pentecostal religious tradition in which Hollis was raised.

You might remember that name from a scene in The Grapes of Wrath, in which a watchman at the migrant worker camp in Weedpatch tells the Joad family about the “Holy Rollers” — Pentecostal ministers — who had been coming through town.Yes, I have a family, a special needs kiddo, a husband who travels internationally, but I can do this.

If you're looking for a light dose of fat shaming (disguised as "the kick in the pants you may need, girl, to take control of your life!

I struggled with every word she said about diet and body image—what was meant to be uplifting and inspiring was preached as scientific fact from someone with no medical/dietetic credentials.