By Amanda Elder of Stay-at-Home Panda Yesterday I read a Facebook post of author, Elizabeth Gilbert. In it she talked about a time she went to a therapist because she didn’t want to have a baby even though she was 30 and married. Rather than joy, she felt dread at […]
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Cellulite
By Kristen Polito I’d been scheduled for a doctor’s appointment that was meant to address the ongoing pain and lack of mobility in my left hip. The persistent injury was at its worst last January, preventing me from even walking normally, much less going out for a run. At the […]
Let Me Tell You a Story About My Boobs
By Katie Wadland of EatSleepMomRepeat. So I had the pleasure of going in for my first mammogram recently. I had been having some mild pain in my left breast for a while and happened to mention this to my ObGyn at my recent visit. I couldn’t feel any lumps and fortunately, […]
Angry Vagina? Make It Happy With Vagisil ProHydrate Natural Feel!
I am officially in that stage of life where my body is experiencing a trifecta of physical assault: exhaustion from raising 3 young children, the youngest of whom is still in diapers; stress from working full time; and hormonal imbalance from entering perimenopause. And I thought puberty was bad. Not […]
The Mammogram That Changed My Life
By Nicole Hardy of She Emerges Several months ago, I had an annual mammogram that changed my life. I started getting mammograms long before my 40s because both my mother and grandma are breast cancer survivors. It’s a routine procedure for me each year, but for the first time, I had a pit […]
I’m Still Battling the Struggles of Having a Stage Mom
By Kristen Polito I was raised the only daughter of one very ambitious stage mom. There, I said it. In just a few short years, she deftly facilitated all that was necessary to manifest the basic building blocks of a troubled childhood: beauty pageants, head-shots, talent agencies, auditions, the whole […]
Parenting With Anxiety: The Outrageous Worries
Parenting is hard. Kind of like juggling three balls and hopping on one foot for an extended period of time. Parenting with anxiety is also hard, only throw in some knives with the balls you’re juggling, a banana peel under your hopping foot, a circus menagerie running through your legs, […]
5 Things Running and Sex Have in Common
By Kelly J. Riibe Sex and running….UUGGHH. Both sound like too much work some days. However, they have the capability of making a gal feel happier and healthier. Check out this list (that all women can relate to) in order to see just how much these two cardiovascular activities really […]