If you’re feeling a little down lately, you’re not alone. It’s not just that stress, anxiety, and depression tend to peak during the holiday season. It’s also that as a nation — and a world — we’re experiencing one of the most emotionally tumultuous years we’ve had in a long […]
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama Women’s Health Associates at Massachusetts General Hospital has seen a dramatic increase in patients reporting feelings of depression and hopelessness since the election. “In the past two weeks, how often have you been feeling down, depressed or hopeless?” is a standard question on medical […]
By Amber Leventry I lay on my yoga mat during savasana, or rest pose, when a man broke the silence of the room by opening the door to the studio, expecting to start his own practice for the evening. This apologetic man made the innocent mistake of entering a room […]
By Stephanie Loomis Pappas Perhaps you have seen that in 2015, toddlers shot more people in the US than terrorists, but you have reasoned that neither toddlers nor terrorists kill very many people in the U.S. each year, so taking action based on that statistic might not be warranted. You […]
By now you may have heard Kanye’s surprise endorsement of Donald Trump. To be fair, Kanye admits he didn’t vote. Maybe he showed up at his polling place and announced, “Ima let you all finish voting, but Bernie Sanders had the best campaign of all time!” I wouldn’t argue with […]
By Barrie Bismark of Daily Dump: Life is a Shit Show Halloween is over. You know what that means…the holidays are right around the corner! It’s never too early to get a jump start on the coolest gifts for your kids. Don’t waste your money on the big, expensive toys this […]
By Stephanie Pappas of snackdinner Ditch the boozy blogging, moms. That’s the closing advice of Rachel McClain in her recent Parent.Co piece about bad behaviors of many parent-bloggers. Most of the mom-wine memes circulating online, she argues, just aren’t funny, but even those that are should give us pause because […]
Steve Bannon has quite the reputation. He is the former executive chair of Breitbart News, which, according to the company’s website, is “the biggest source of breaking news…thought-leading commentary, and original reporting…for the new generation of independent and conservative thinkers.” He is a driving force behind the alt-right movement, and much […]