THE WANT LIBRARY
Our full library of blog posts, filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk
THE WANT LIBRARY
Our full library of blog posts, filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk
The WANT Women: Emily Greener On Curiosity, Complexity, and The Choice To Connect
If you're anything like me, your entire experience from freshman year of high school to senior year of college was a massive lesson in self-discovery. Never before are you not only forced to think for yourself, but...
Down In The Slumps: The Simple, No-B.S. Shift For When You’re Feeling Discouraged
I make lists like it’s my job. And for a while there, it was: I’ve gone down the personal assistant route, I’ve written round-ups of everything from the best protein bars to "7 bike shorts that don't suck." My methods...
How To Listen When You Disagree: A Lesson From The Republican National Convention
It's easier to unfriend, unfollow, and tune out when we hear what we don't want to hear. In an ideal world, we tell ourselves, everyone would share our exact viewpoint. In a perfect universe, we say, we'd all think the...
Seventeen-Point-Five: The Underestimation of our Unforeseen Strength.
Another day at the gym, another chance to fit in some resistance work. It was crowded on the floor, the weight rack reminding me of the produce shelves at Trader Joe's Chelsea on Sunday evenings: picked over, plowed...
The Self-Love Turning Point: 17 Badass WANT Women On When They Started To Love Themselves (For Real)
Self-love...it can be so elusive, right? One day we're our own biggest fan, the next we're bashing ourselves for missing the mark. One minute we're flying high, the next we're buried in a pile of shoulds and doubts and...
Being Afraid Of The Friends That You Need.
"We are a group of ladies that like to group hug the shit out of each other and make it feel like home. Welcome to the lady gang :-* " I received this text the other night from a fairly new-ish friend, a rad gal I'd...
And I’m Feeling Good…Part Deux: How To Stretch A Good Body Day (or week.) For The Long Haul
It's been two weeks in my new home across the country, and I've felt a shift happen. An actual, physical shift. In my body. It feels good. It sounds superficial and petty, but it's not: the way I feel is directly...
The WANT Women: Erin Bagwell on Determination, Depression, and Dreaming Big
As a brand new New Yorker (well…I’m getting there!), I’m realizing now more than ever the power in the pack. Whether it’s a group of tight-knit friends or just familiar faces walking through the gym, I feel the most...
The Dreams We Woke Up From: An Ode To Transitions.
There isn't much more of an emotional experience for me than driving through Downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley then back again; a route I know all too well yet still find so much nuance and newness in....
Oversharers Anonymous: A PSA On Sharing Publicly.
Ever have those moments where you just can't seem to squeeze any creativity out of yourself? That was me this weekend. Whenever I tell people I'm a "writer," images of scribbling away old school style inside a Moleskin...
FEAR/LESS: On Making Shift Happen + Moving Forward Fearlessly
You know those hours, days, moments when everything seems to just click? Those times when all the shaky transitions, all the nights wondering what the f you're really supposed to be doing with your life, all the...
Flawlessly Flawed: The Hoax Of Perfection.
When I was twelve, I read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. A sort of Brave New World for the tween set, it's about a confined society in which everything is Just So all the time. A society that's been converted to...
