Just The Way We Are
A lot of us hide behind our words. It’s easier that way. Usually, anyway. But then the voices inside our heads that can only be expressed with our fingers on our blogs or in our journals or in our essays remind us that we can’t always keep the secrets at bay. If we had cancer [...]
For the past eleven years, I have hidden secret grief. I’m sick of silence. I sick of feeling like I have to remain silent because what I have to say goes against my liberal upbringing. So, today, I’m opening my mouth. On Mother’s Day, eleven years ago when I was a junior in college, I [...]
“Mama! Where’s my kettlebell?” She’s standing between me and the TV, arms folded and hip jutted out to the side. Buttercup has been wanting in lately on the Pauline’s Search for a Smaller Ass Healty Kick and that means less solitary Ohms and more creative inclusion. I grab the remote and hit pause on [...]
I cannot conceive children. Well, not without medications, injections, doctors and about $15,000.00. I did not know this until I was 28, married and trying hard to be a mom before hitting 30. My body could not perform a basic human, female, function. What kind of woman was I if I could not have children? [...]
It’s here, my friends! The official Girl Body Pride bracelet is finally available and I am so very excited to share it with you! It’s gorgeous, simple, and always on my wrist. Just knowing it’s there helps me to focus on the path I am on to self-love, self-acceptance, and body pride. It’s [...]
People ask “Do you have more fun?” or “Do you feel dumber?” I myself am guilty of having made stupid jokes in both of those veins. The truth is, it doesn’t matter what your hair color is. You can’t escape who you really are. — On the night I sat down to write Lisa’s eulogy, [...]
As a girl, my hair was not the color of Barbie’s. My eyes were not the color of Barbie’s. My boobs were not… they were just… not. Moreover, I didn’t walk around on my tip toes all the time. Barbie was everywhere. My friends had Barbie. Barbie was on the TV. I wanted to be [...]
I learned a new term today. Behavior Centered Health. According to Ragen Chastain on Dances with Fat, behavior centered health is a concept in which healthy choices and behaviors are the goal, not a particular size, weight, or shape. I have officially been riding the diet yo-yo since the first time I begged my parents [...]
“Mama, that one’s pretty!” I frown at my reflection in the unforgiving dressing room mirror. The lights are too bright. Beneath the glare, I see a too-fat woman with too-full hips and a too-round belly shoved into not-enough Lycra. There’s flab where muscle once was, cellulite hiding definition lost long before I got pregnant almost [...]
Some of us write and post and pray that the Viral Internet Fairy will visit our words as we sleep, sprinkle them with magical Social Media Sharing Dust and we will wake up famous. All of those hours spent working for free, building our platforms, sharing the message that matters most with our tiny little [...]
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