Just The Way We Are
Newsflash, y’all! Kim Kardashian has her body back. No surgery, haters. So stop your finger-pointing and snide headlines, already. US Weekly calls Kim’s “exclusive” picture proof the ultimate revenge for all the post-baby body bashing stories. And as far as the media (and a large segment of our body conscious society is concerned), that’s all […]
I have a confession to make. My career and passion is in the beauty business. I manage a salon and retail shop. But that’s not the confession.For most of my life I thought I was ugly. I used to be the girl who thought I was too ugly to get my picture taken. I […]
We did it. You did it. I really don’t give a damn how cheesy I sound because I am thrilled to announce that This is My Brave just ended a successful kickstarter campaign to produce a live performance of the same title. The focus is ending the stigma of mental illness and that, my […]
Let’s talk about Being Brave. Not with a sword, but with our voices. Maybe we use a pen. Maybe we click, clack away on a keyboard, looking up only every now and then at the words born onto the white screen before us. Maybe we are Brave with our voices or a maybe […]
I used to be the girl who bitched about the skinny ones at the gym. How dare they mock me and my curvy-self trying oh-so-hard just to maintain? Why are they even here? I never asked the question out loud. But I’d usually answer it at home with a self-indulgent pity party for one complete […]
by Jenn Marshall The holidays are coming up and for me this time of year is always bittersweet. The end of October marks the anniversary of my postpartum psychosis experience. Leaves changing to shades of yellow, orange and red, combined with the smell of real wood-burning fireplaces in our neighborhood on a chilly night […]
I am many things. A mother. A writer. A Wife and lover of all things Dr. Who. I’m ADHD and I’m anxiety and I’m really, really bad at putting the forks back in the same spot every time I unload the dishwasher. I’m allergic to the world, infertile, and at 35, I’m dealing with […]
by Jennifer Collins When I was a little girl, my mother always told me that I was unique. That in all of creation there had never been anyone just like me. That my life had a purpose. That I could do anything that I set my mind to. That I was beautiful […]
I have never been one of the cool kids, mostly because I was never willing to adapt to the ever-evolving shapeshifter that is “coolness” at the expense of being who I really am. Yet, even now, I notice the pressure to play it cool and the battle that goes on in my own psyche. […]
Most women I know who “grew up one of the boys” did so because they were one of five kids…and the only girl. Rough-housing and poop jokes were all they really knew and that gave them a free pass to hang with the dudes. Based on the reaction I get from women and men nowadays […]
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