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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-active-philosopher-ripping-off-the-band-aids/">Her Active Philosopher: Ripping Off the Band-Aids</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted July 23, 2007 at 11:26 AM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">In this weekly column, Her Active Philosopher, Senior writer Katie Drummond, waxes philosophical and writes lyrically as she invites us on her personal health and fitness journey. You can read her previous columns by clicking on the following links: column one; column two; column three; column four. When we were young, cuts were torture – even the smallest bleeder could evoke tears and trauma, as anxious parents went to great pains to subdue young casualties. Usually, all it took was a bright sassy band-aid (and maybe a cookie or two) before the tears dried up and we were back in fighting shape, ready to take on the world. Twenty odd years later, and I can still admit to preferring Cinderella band-aids to the usual flesh colored ones.…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-active-philosopher-ripping-off-the-band-aids/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-active-philosopher-ripping-off-the-band-aids/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-active-philosopher-ripping-off-the-band-aids/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-active-philosopher-ripping-off-the-band-aids/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/body-image/">body-image</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/eating-disorders/">eating-disorders</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-story/">her-story</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/special-features/">special-features</a><br /><br /> </P>