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Favorite By Tricia Srinivasan Tricia Srinivasan is a Los Angeles-based mom (to a teenager and a toddler), and when she has the time, she loves to take care of herself at the gym and the salon and spend time with her family with bike rides on the beach and traveling.
Favorite By Jennifer Worden Jennifer is a mom of three and lives in Northern Michigan. She spent her 20s living in Los Angeles, London, and Chicago before returning to her home roots. In the last year, she started running again. We sat down to talk with her about how it
Favorite I was out for a run the other day, and as my phone alerted me that I had hit one mile, my feet slammed to a halt. I’ve been making this same loop for a few weeks now, and I’m not finding it any easier. One morning, as I
Favorite As a mother of two grown-up children, I look back and realize how stressed I was when my kids were growing up. To the young mothers out there, I would like to tell you to enjoy the journey as kids grow up so fast, and soon you become an
Favorite The coming out process for me began my first semester of college in 1995. It was a slow, deliberate, painful, scary, liberating, hopeful, sad, and exciting experience all at the same time. It varied in the degree of those emotions from day-to-day, even minute-to-minute. In hindsight, it was like
Favorite By Anna (Interview) This is a different story, a side to being a mother that you don’t always hear. I’m a birth mother. I placed my daughter for adoption, but I’m still a mother. Giving her a life I dreamed of for myself was one of the best decisions
Favorite Sometimes things don’t work out. We all know this, but we never want it, or expect it, or have it in our plans to be part of our story. My marriage didn’t work. Against all that I had wanted and planned, it wasn’t going to happen. I now find
Favorite By Rebekah Edholm Last year, in the midst of a pandemic, we moved from overseas back to the U.S. Looking back, I can see that this was the starting point to what I now recognize as burnout. Let me start by explaining our situation. My husband is in the
Favorite By Anonymous I look at my one year old daughter standing in front of the TV while I’m on mute. It’s 7 AM and I’m on a call for work. Hours pass and the calls keep coming and my daughter is still there, in front of the TV, walking
Favorite By Kathleen Walters I was so excited to be pregnant. My husband and I had been married four years, just enough time to be “prepared” for a first child. With a degree in Child Development and years of teaching preschoolers, I had every confidence that raising a child would
Favorite By Megan Warren The Struggle Those first moments were so beautiful – the relief of birth, the feeling of my child, part of my deepest heart placed wetly on my chest, swollen with the wonder and disbelief of the miracle I created. Reality crashed in pretty quickly and
Favorite (Interview) I think the thing, and I’m probably going to cry, I think the thing I’ve learned is that the letting go part really is also about the coming back to. So that feeling of being in limbo right now, finding the new normal, it doesn’t happen all of
Favorite (Interview) You’re not supposed to outlive your kids. He’ll always be 17. It’s really weird. And I still feel shock. Almost five years later and I wake up and I still can’t believe he’s gone. It doesn’t feel real for a long time after I wake up each day
Favorite By Alisa Gonzalez When the “Me Too” movement started, I was brought to tears at the bravery of these women speaking publicly and loudly to their abusers, saying that enough was finally enough. This has created a new world, one where we can raise our daughters that it’s never
Favorite By Alisa Gonzalez It was June 4, 2001, I was 20 years old, and I had been a mother for three months. I remember so much more clearly than most because up until that day, I had felt I had already been so many things: a hated child, a
Favorite By Alisa Gonzalez The immediate moments after having a baby are some of the most blissful minutes. Then those quickly turn to days, that turn to weeks, that turn to months, and in perfect succession, your life and routine begins to happen all around you. Once your little bundle
Favorite She was unhappy. Unhappy with her body. She wanted to lose the 30 pounds she had gained over the years of birthing three kids. She was tired. She had so much more energy before. Now, there was so much more to juggle and keep track of that it was
Favorite By Lisa Talbot A warm, salty tear dropped from my eye to the crescent of my upper lip. I was going today. I glanced at the clock, it was 5:34 PM, and I had less than 90 minutes until bedtime. My eyes darted to the rearview mirror and I
Favorite About three weeks ago, life was going along as life does: work, swim lessons, birthday parties, buying bathing suits for our upcoming—and long-awaited—family vacation to Florida. And then, the coronavirus came charging in like a speeding train out of nowhere. One minute we were vaguely aware of a virus
Favorite Becoming a mom changes you. I think that goes without saying, in theory, but once you’re in it you realize just how much your new perspective is drastically different. You look at everyone and everything through a new lens. Before having kids, you spend your life consumed with
Favorite By Anonymous As a single woman and mom in my late 30s, I often find myself at social events, talking about my life. It’s not surprising that the conversations become personal at some point; talking and sharing with others who are in their 30s and 40s, who want to
Favorite 43.5 million moms – that’s the number of mothers between the ages of 15 and 50 according to the 2014 census – yet finding mom friends can feel like an impossible feat. I was living in New York City when I had my son. And I loved my
Favorite By Aga Grabowski As moms, this feeling of guilt runs through our blood the moment we bring our baby home from the hospital (and as women, this can start when we’re trying to conceive, we’ll save that important conversation for the next article). When we asked moms what types
Favorite By Alex Auerbach, Ph.D. Mothers arguably have one of the most grueling, high-stress jobs on the planet; a job with a lot of expectations, judgment, and onlooker opinion and absolutely no manual. The role of a mother requires the skill to pivot quickly, make decisions daily, and be a
Favorite By Savannah Rucker, LPC We hear the word trauma thrown around a lot – especially after the last several years. But what is trauma? What does it look like in our everyday lives? And how can we begin to heal? As parents, the last several years have felt incredibly
Favorite In the article Bereavement in Adult Life, the author Colin Parkes writes, “After a major loss, such as the death of a spouse or child, up to a third of the people most directly affected will suffer detrimental effects on their physical or mental health, or both.” Grief.
Favorite Moms who work outside of the home, this one is especially for you! Likely you’ve helped your little one(s) begin to develop their emotional intelligence at home. Read on for 7 tips to apply emotional intelligence to your career success as well. As more studies show emotional intelligence (E.I.) improves employee
Favorite Ariel Hoffman of Ariel Hoffman Total Body Wellness is a mother, wellness coach, master fitness trainer, and entrepreneur, and she’s here to drop some knowledge on us about how to break free from the horrible cycle of stress-fatigue-burnout. What is it? What does it look like? And how can we
Favorite We had the opportunity to sit down with the team over at Sip of Hope – a local Chicago coffee shop that’s changing the conversation around mental health and creating a whole lot of suicide prevention awareness. The impact they’re making both in the community and through their coffee
Favorite Should we call women “Super Mom”? Is that title fair? Is it putting undue pressure on women? Is being a super mom even possible, or is it a myth? We’re at the point in the story that the superhero feels defeated, is tired, and overwhelmed; she wants to give
Favorite Rachel Johnson is one of our mom and expert members, mom of two kids, a lawyer, and CEO and Founder of ah*mi, a health and wellness company for sustainable living. We love when we can talk to moms who just get it. Who understand the demands of our daily
Favorite Health and Accountability Coach, Lindsey Kaszuba of Lindsey Kaszuba Health, gives us 5 tips for breastfeeding moms. More than just that, these are great tips for all moms! One thing that is often not shared about breastfeeding is just how hard it can be. It’s really important for moms to realize that
Favorite Childbirth can be one of the most amazing experiences of our lives. It’s truly transformative in ways we could never imagine. It can also be anxiety-ridden, traumatic, and lonely. Understanding our bodies is so important. We sat down with Tara Morrison, doctor of physical therapy, women’s health coach, and
Favorite Often as moms, we’re always giving our time and ourselves to everyone else in our lives. Whether it be our families, friends, our careers – when we slow down and take a step back, it’s overwhelming. It’s only when we take a pause that we often realize we’re barely
Favorite As a reproductive psychiatrist, I have had the unique privilege of working with many pregnant and postpartum mothers from various cultures, religions, and walks of life. Despite this being a heterogeneous group of women, many myths about motherhood are cross-cultural and, frustratingly, seem to impact many women in setting
Favorite Have you ever heard of a career coach? How can one help you? We asked our mom-members: What would you like to know? And then we sat down with Lisa Virtue of Lisa Virtue Coaching to get some answers. Whether you’re at a career crossroads or you’re looking to enter (or re-enter)
Favorite When it comes to our mental health, what we eat is incredibly important. Simply put, our brains are working 24/7 – even while we’re sleeping – so it needs a healthy supply of nutrients to function all the time. That’s not to say we can’t enjoy ourselves, but it
Favorite Have you ever wondered what a doula is and how one could help you? Whether you’re a first-time mom or you’ve been down this path before, no two births are ever the same. Knowing what support options you have is incredibly important. We sat down with Keira Morè Doula,
Favorite When I found out that I was pregnant with my daughter I was told that “once the baby is here then I will never sleep again”. The thought of never sleeping again made me not able to sleep before she even arrived! Can I let you in on a
Favorite It’s time to change the conversation around motherhood and healthy living. It’s about feeling good and doing the things that lift you up, no matter how big or small. Little victories are significant on this journey. Motherhood is a total whirlwind, but you can be healthy, happy and fulfilled,
