I want to love my body. Did you hear that? I want to love my body.
This does NOT mean that I want to improve...
At 18 years old and 95 pounds soaking wet, my belly is where the pudge settled. It wasn't even pudge, really. Just a slightly fluffy...
He was born on the couch in my living room. I had wanted a VBAC. In my mind it was planned perfectly with me...
Last week I was reading a book to my 15-month old daughter. I don’t remember which book it was or whether she even sat...
Send yourself some love...because life is too damn short to worry about your cellulite!
My relationship with my thighs has always been rocky.
Even when my...
I see you there, six
with your skinned knees and short hair,
chasing after the boys down the street
with a skateboard under your arm.
I see you...
There's no need to be afraid. There's no need to be bashful. That's what I tell myself.
What I'm wearing in the photo is no...
Dear Nora and Maggie,
I want to start this letter by reminding you all just how much I love you. I know I tell you...
Camera shy? More like camera phobic! Thanks to digital photography I have been able to successfully avoid photos of myself through cropping or simply...
This body. This tired, strong, overworked body. Two boys breathed through this body, stretched skinny baby legs up into its rib cage, made its...
I spent a good chunk of the Saturday before the Body After Babies photo shoot trying to figure out how to get out of...
For pretty much my whole life I have been the image of "skinny": Long legs, lean torso, and a thin face. Despite being the...
I’m a local doula and childbirth educator, and more importantly for this post, a MOTHER. As part of my Preparation for Birth series, I...
When we have babies, our lives totally change and are never the same - our routines, our checkbooks, our hearts - yet somehow we...