Elizabeth Licorish

Elizabeth Licorish is a freelance writer and author from Philadelphia. She wrote and co-authored Innovation for Underdogs in 2008. In 2012, she wrote and edited Charles Manson Now. She received her MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University. Whenever she's not writing, draining chain cups of coffee, or cleaning the cookie crumbs out of her computer keyboard, she's either running in circles or sprawled out over her yoga mat.

April 3, 2020

Community Service

Philly-area organizations inspiring community spirit as COVID-19 cases rise

by Elizabeth Licorish

As coronavirus cases increase in Philadelphia and South Jersey, local organizations are taking steps lift community spirits. Middle Child, a restaurant, is donating sandwiches to hospital workers while keeping its employees on payroll. The DOT organization in Winslow Township, New Jersey is helping vulnerable residents access medicine and the Pennsylvania SPCA is facilitating pet fosters.

January 15, 2019

Fitness

Running with Raynaud's: Exercising outdoors in the extreme cold – safely

by Elizabeth Licorish

I never complain about running in the heat because it is much easier for me than running in the cold. That’s because I experience Raynaud’s phenomenon, a condition which causes vasospasm in the small arteries of the hands and feet due to extreme cold or stress.

December 4, 2018

Fitness

Why I started a running streak

by Elizabeth Licorish

Rest days make me feel like total garbage. So I stopped taking them.

August 1, 2018

Fitness

Why everyone should try yoga with cats

by Elizabeth Licorish

While yoga/farm animal fusions might seem fun and Instagrammable for some, I see a real need for cat yoga – for people and cats, too.

April 4, 2018

Yoga

Beloved Instagram yogis Dana Falsetti and Kino MacGregor fight back against Alo Yoga lawsuit

by Elizabeth Licorish

Dana Falsetti isn’t your average yoga teacher. The 24-year-old Bucks County native stumbled on internet acclaim in 2016, when her advanced yoga practice attracted Instagram followers in droves. It wasn’t just Falsetti’s headstands or backbends that people liked; fans were drawn to her personal vulnerability, her struggles with body image, eating disorders, and overall self-loathing, which she was eager to share with others enduring similar pressures on the image-driven social media app.

February 2, 2018

Women's Health

Nancy Kerrigan puts spotlight on eating disorders in athletes

by Elizabeth Licorish

As more Olympic figure skaters battle eating disorders, a new documentary from Nancy Kerrigan seeks solutions to an age-old problem

October 11, 2017

Fibromyalgia

New pain study offers hope for Lady Gaga, others with fibromyalgia

by Elizabeth Licorish

Recently, Netflix released the documentary "Gaga: Five Foot Two," an intimate look at the iconic musician’s struggle to record "Joanne," her fifth and most personal studio album, while battling the relatively common but mysterious chronic pain condition fibromyalgia.

August 30, 2017

Yoga

Yoga roadshow coming to Philly can help you beat the winter blues

by Elizabeth Licorish

I don’t know how I would have endured this past winter without yoga.

July 12, 2017

Women's Health

Internet yoga star reignites debate over corporate body shaming

by Elizabeth Licorish

Every few years, the media erupts with stories about the commercialization of western yoga and the body shaming, racial discrimination, and cultural appropriation that ensue. The conversation is ignited (the fire is usually held to lululemon, whose controversial, sizeist former CEO built his business model by marginalizing fuller figured women ), and then the discussion slowly dies down. People reabsorb the idea that yoga is the exclusive privilege of thin, white women, whose spines naturally bend in half.

June 27, 2017

Cats