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
Openness: On 29.
I've always done pretty well with expected change. You know, the kinds of life shifts and milestone moments that are "supposed to happen," and usually happen to big groups of people at the same time. Elementary to...
Squad Goals + Self Worth: 5 Tips For When You’re Triggered By Your Friends
YOU KNOW the saying "You are a combination of the 5 people you spend the most time with?" That also means that many times, when our closest friends and loved ones get under our skin, it's an indication of something...
Making Friends As An Adult, Part II: Vulnerability + The First-Best You
Friendship as an adult is complicated. No longer bonded by the confines of proximity ("You’re in my class? Let’s be friends!"), we’re now able to choose who and what we keep around. In theory, this should make for even...
Beside The Point: If I’m Confident, Why Do I Still Have Negative Self-Talk?
Hi Katie, I recently discovered your website through the Well/Aware podcast you were featured in and I wanted to tell you that I am so inspired by what you are doing. In the last year or so, I have been very focused on...
The WANT Women: Artist Delia Brown On “Making It,” True Love, And Songs About Cancer
Over 200 of you tuned in on the very first DAY of the WANTcast! The very first DAY! Considering I was hoping maybe one or two people other than my mom, dad, and grandma would love it...your emails, tweets, and little...
Introducing The WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast
I've always known that I wanted WANT to appeal to all kinds of learners: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. So far, I've gotten the ball rolling on two(ish) of the three - weekly written content and live...
The Year-Round Bikini Body (Or, I Survived Summer Vacation And All I Got Was This Healthy Perspective)
It’s that time of year again: bikini markdown season. Just weeks ago, I was rushing to Target hours before vacation time, rotating 8-item-max after 8-item-max in and out of my 8-item-max dressing room just hoping to...
The WANT Women: Tricia Huffman on Honesty, Hardcore Zen, And Effing The “Shoulds”
I'm always inspired by women who've done their own thing and forged their own path. Especially when...
Making Friends As An Adult, Part One: It’s Not About The Bestie
People talk all the time about how the media influences the way we view our bodies, but just as strongly and pointedly, it influences how we view friendship. As pop culture would have it, we're supposed to have a...
You Don’t Have To Be Broken For Me: On Falling In Love
You Don't Have To Be Broken For Me. It's my favorite line from Cheryl Strayed's book, Tiny Beautiful Things. Because it so sweetly, so succinctly encapsulates what I think we all want to hear, what we hope we'll hear...
The WANT Women: Jessamyn Stanley On Being Worthy From Top To Bottom
"Negative talk shows up in my life in the typical places - it’s at lunch with my college girlfriends, and in the locker room of the gym. It’s at work, with my coworkers. But you know where it isn’t? At my house, in my...
Negative Self Talk And That Time Of The Month.
At the time of writing this, I've literally just spent three hours alternating between being curled up in excruciating pain in fetal position and being spread out in starfish position (to distribute the agony?) in...
