When I became a first-time mom, I’d lived more than three decades. I’d seen the metabolism of my youth falter. I had started using reading glasses and I occasionally made small grunts of exertion when I got up from the couch. If I had given birth just two years later…

My daughter deserves better than a world on fire Earlier this week, I sat down to write a blog post for our local paper’s parenting section. …

This National Breastfeeding Month, I want to remind you breast isn’t always best We were the only ones in the emergency department. Or at least that’s what it seemed like. The only people I’d seen since we’d arrived were the nurses who checked us in at the front — screening…

Dealing with Fear, Rage and People Who Suck If you’ve been in therapy long enough, at one point or another someone will tell you that anger is a secondary emotion. They’ll tell you anger is just a cover-up for a different emotion like fear or sadness. …

How sexism prevents us from talking about postpartum care Long story short: I’m 33 years old. I had a chronic health condition that was misdiagnosed for so long it led to anxiety, depression and not so fun bouts with OCD (the real kind, not like when you think liking things…

What my male chauvinist neighbor taught me about being a bad dad — I don’t want to presume to know the vocabulary skills of all second graders. But I think I can safely assume that most of them don’t know what the words “male chauvinist” mean. But, I did. I’d figured it out from the context clues when I was eavesdropping on a…

How My Future Daughter Helped Me Nix Self-Improvement for Self-Acceptance Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been way too into self-improvement. At an impressionable young age, I’d read my mom’s women’s magazines that would tell me how to lose weight, get fit, get organized and eat healthy. In the…

How Therapy and Feminism Taught Me to Own My Anger and Use My Voice We don’t like angry women. Throughout history, women’s anger has terrified us so we’ve tried to silence it. In the past, we’ve diagnosed dissatisfied women who had the audacity to say something about it with ailments…

Also, what’s with all the horses? There are a lot of things I don’t like about the holiday season. Christmas shopping out in the world with people. Ick. The cold. People who get upset when you say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” and claim your jolly greeting is some…