Sometimes Being Physically Ill is Being Heartsick
Content warning: sexual abuse, trauma I have had urinary tract infections for nine months, almost at a rate of once per month. When a urinary tract infection (also [...]
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The War of the Posts
Something happened recently that made me rethink social media and the relationships they foster. When I first started using Facebook, it was fun to post, and it quickly [...]
Sweatpants & Relationships | No Love Better
After my second divorce, I vowed that I would never marry again if there was even one tiny iota of doubt in my mind that I had found The One. I had already married twice [...]
Finding Myself in Fantasy Novels
There is something to be said for the feeling of stepping into a fictional world so vivid you blissfully lose your own reality. Well, there are a lot of things to be said for [...]
That’s What She Said | 44 Awesome Ways to Cultivate Happiness, Part 2
If we pay attention, we can identify those small moments that indicate great change. These moments are easy to pass by, to discount as “not important enough,” but they [...]
That’s What She Said | 44 Awesome Ways to Cultivate Happiness, Part 1
I recently had a conversation with a group of friends that blew my mind. It started with Lady A saying, “I don’t hate my body. Yeah, there are changes I want to make, but [...]
Book Rx: Your Monthly Reading Prescriptions | “What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About” by Michele Filgate, Editor
Rx: “What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About” Prescribed by: Michele Filgate, Editor Prescribed for: Anyone looking to explore the complex relationship we have with [...]
Opposites Attract: What It’s Like to Have Anxiety Disorder When Your Partner Doesn’t
Here it comes again. Roiling up inside of me, sometimes untriggered, sometimes in response to things like another horrible mass shooting. Anxiety. Crushing my chest and [...]
Why Are We Still Shaming Single Women?
This article began with a phone call. A friend called to lament about a friend who experienced a crisis of faith because no matter how beautiful, accomplished, and kind she [...]
Parenting From a United Front
She was so excited! I could practically hear her little heart beating out of her chest. I curled her hair and put on some tinted lip gloss. I knew these memories would be [...]
