Confidence is a powerful, sexy thing that needs to be protected at all costs. There are ways, as Mark talks about, to really boost your confidence. It makes an amazing difference in a life well lived.

The smile is a powerful communicator in a photograph as well as in real life. Here are 10 tips to get the perfect photogenic smile in both real life and in photographs. Master Photographer Mark Laurie of Inner Spirit Photography shares what he has learned photographing over 5,000 women.

This woman nails the way women see themselves. She has a bluntly, honest assessment of the troublesome way she looks at her body. Mark adds to the perspective with more insights. It often takes just one woman to say, hey, I should stop this, what am I doing? to create a ripple of change that embraces body and self image.

The nude athletes in ESPN’s annual body issue have the same reason and insecurities to do this as all women have getting their own nude session done.