There’s a saying I once heard (probably from Oprah) about when it comes to the people you interact with on a regular basis: “We teach others how to treat us.” And I used to think that was bogus. Not that I thought that I was immune to...
One of the little details I love best about my life is that my parents still live in the house I grew up in. My room is practically untouched from the time I was a teenager, photographs and books stacked up on my desk from when I moved home my senior year of college....
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 find a cut, color, and style that looked halfway...
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 posse, and we’re told that every good story has a...
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 from the people we love...
“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 bedroom, in my heart, or on my yoga...
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