I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me My baby won’t stop staring at me. This isn’t literally true, but it feels like it. You see, Vincent and I (Laura) gifted ourselves a canvas photo of our son Jesse for Christmas. When we decided on size, we went a little...
Women’s Issues
We discuss issues that predominantly pertain to women.
Coping with Grief and Loss During the Holidays
I’m in a curious place this holiday season. It’s hard to know what to feel. Over the course of sixteen months I’ve had two miscarriages and I (Laura) am currently pregnant for a third time. It’s not like there is a lot of literature out there about...
Seven Signs You May Be In A Toxic Friendship
Songs have been written about them, a tv show is named after them, and we all need them: friends. Friends are our cheerleaders, adopted family members and our social network. For some people, however, friendships can be exhausting, angering, and unhealthy. The very definition of friend is...
Three Unconventional Ways You Can Boost Your Confidence Today
A few decades of promoting increased self-esteem, pop psychology’s answer to all that ails society, has led to the converse. People seem to feel more disillusioned with themselves and life now more than ever before. If rewarding us with trophies, medals, or cheeseburgers every time we do...
A Word About Pregnancy/Infant Loss Awareness Month
Stashed inside my husband’s family bible are three ultrasound pictures. Inside our bathroom cabinet are two positive pregnancy tests. My baby matters. What should have been a happy day when we got to see the baby’s heartbeat was a day when we didn’t. I remember shivering in...
What Exercise Has Taught Me About Mental Health
Have you ever had fun being awkward? I do, every week. I call cues and stand in front of a group of people on one leg with the other leg, well…it may just be all over the place! A few years ago I would have never seen...
What Your Teen Knows That You Need To Know: The Thigh Gap
The Thigh Gap Last year, ABC received flak for running a news piece on the thigh gap. This informative news piece was meant to raise awareness of the trend of teen girls doing whatever they can to achieve a pronounced gap between their legs. This “gap” is...
Eight Tips To Encouraging Girls To Be All That They Can Be
Anorexia. Bulimia. Cutting. Depression. All are experiences that are becoming more and more common in young girls. Although women have gained certain freedoms in the past century, we have become enslaved by insecurities that keep us consciously or unconsciously comparing ourselves to airbrushed and false images. It is not...
The Incredible Shrinking Body: A Commentary on Body Image & Our Culture
Recently I involuntarily caught a statement made by Mariah Carey flashing across a ticker during a news show. The report was about how she had gotten into shape after delivering twins. She stated that she was glad that she had gotten her body back. With no facetious...
Activate the Body, Activate the Mind: Find the Right Reason to Exercise
Every year around the time the ball drops, plans are being made to finally squeeze into that bikini by swim season. But as the scale does not lie, you find New Year’s resolutions are as hollow as that chocolate Easter bunny you’re gonna eat in April. ...