In this TEDx Crawford Road talk, Nicole aims to disrupt the narrative that tells people their bodies are not enough, just as they are.

Making peace with my body helped me make peace with money too.
Are you questioning how in the daylight I got comfortable with money after I got comfortable with my body? If you think it sounds like a stretch, I get it. But it’s a true story!
And before anybody asks—no, I wasn’t selling my physical delights to pad my bottom line.

Life transformation is a bold claim. So bold it sounds almost trite. Or if not trite, then so broad that its vagueness seems almost meaningless.
But I’m willing to double down on the belief that making peace with your body will transform every aspect of your life. If you let it. If you allow it.

Let me show you just how powerful this journaling practice can be by deconstructing one part of my love-note writing journey to make peace with my body.

There is no one-size-fits-all healing program when it comes to making peace with your body. We have such different lived experiences that there’s no way we could expect to heal the same way.

I’ve been experiencing big feelings—the ragey grief kind—since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and I thought you would understand the way jagged snips of memory slice their way to consciousness, demanding attention.