That’s What She Said | Dumb Lies You Need to Know During Hard Times
We tell ourselves dumb lies, especially when times are hard. The voices that live in our heads tell us lies about our value, but here is some truth. [...]
self esteem
Personal Essays | Burn the Pages & Keep Going
The past teaches us important lessons about where we do and do not want to go, but we also need to let go. [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | Rejecting Shame
I’m a sex-positive, body-positive, non-traditional relationship, pansexual, kinky kind of gal. I know this sounds like it would be a fun article about my sex life and all [...]
Personal Essay | Invisible Disability
Jessica Grey talks about how anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, and other invisible disabilities affect your relationship with - and image of - your own body. [...]
Personal Essay | Recovering Beauty
A recovering anorexic gets real about navigating her way through the world after nearly twenty years of sickness. [...]
Personal Essay | Dear Body: Love, Me
How my dressing-room epiphany inspired me to remember that it's not me vs. my body - we're a team. [...]
What Buffy Taught Me: Everything I Need to Know About Self-love
I’ve always approached the world head-on. It almost feels as if my whole body is attached to and held up by my jaw–my chin jutting forward in a hyper-vigilant pose of [...]
Remembering Me
At dinner, my mom turns to my husband and says, as she has many times over the years, “I prayed against all the other boyfriends, you know. Every single one of them. Except [...]
Love Me For Me, Not For My Leg Rolls
Earlier this week, a company called Wry Baby sparked controversy with one of their baby onesies, which read “I hate my thighs.” Obviously this is troubling for [...]
Personal Essay | Dear Body: Can You Give Me Time?
By Shandle Blaha Photo Credit: Greg Blaha Dear Body, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for starving you at all those lunch tables growing up, feeling that I looked like a pig. If they [...]
