Guest blog post by Natalie Jobity, President of Élan Image Management.

You know the saying, “we are what we eat”? I’d like to add,” we look as good as we feel.”

And the way we feel has a lot to do with how well we are taking care of our most basic needs. Our self-care is important to expressing a vibrant, healthy, and confident external image.

Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and author.

She serves as Special Correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials.

She hosts Katie, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. She's also a single Mom.

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture, and also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.

Susan notes: at Christmas, when I was a young girl, my mother used to read me this story from a beautiful picture book.

I remember how it made me feel at once terribly sad and tearfully joyful.

I could imagine the poor little girl cold and alone, seeking comfort from a few matches, the only possesions she had...