This post was written by Alice Oates as a part of the Teen Week: Words That Heal series. Want to participate? Check out the details here. I’ve now reached that very strange point that everyone must reach where next birthday I will not be a teenager anymore. It has its own terrifying connotations of being [...]
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This post was written by Kaleigh Somers as a part of the Teen Week: Words That Heal series. Want to participate? Check out the details here. When I was younger, I had anxiety about communicating with my mother. Anything related to growing up, becoming a woman, was best ignored in a world where I was [...]
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Today we’re going to chat about what it was like to be a teenager. Stereotypically? Acne. Lockers. Backseats. “It’s Complicated.” Prom queens. Bullies. Varsity teams. Also: Vulnerability. Dissociated promiscuity. Disordered eating. Trend-oriented. Poverty. Fear. Confusion. Inactivity. ______________________________________________ When I was a teenager, I was terrified, most seconds of most days. I was scared that I [...]
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This guest post is written the by The Headologist, Ellie Di. It’s incredibly easy to be sick of hearing about “tough love” these days. Seems like every coach and their mother is into it; hell, even Oprah’s talking about it. We tend to dismiss the idea out of hand because if it’s so common it [...]
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How many times have you broken a promise to yourself? Whether it is due to a careful negotiation of whether or not you truly deserve what you’ve promised, or whether it just goes by the wayside in the busyness of your daily life – we have a tendency not to follow through on the promises [...]
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This post was written by Sally McGraw of Already Pretty. You know how, when you’re feeling kinda wretched about the current state of your bod, you tend to lose interest in shopping? And eventually, shopping apathy morphs into diminished interest in clothes? And sometimes THAT indifference becomes an inability to engage in basic grooming? It’s [...]
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This post was written by Patti of Not Dead Yet Style. Oh boy, this is a pet peeve. I hear it mostly on the home shopping channels (gulp, if I ever, um, happen to have the TV tuned to one of them while I am, errr, polishing up an article for the New York Times). [...]
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This post is written by Rosie Molinary. Years ago, there was an ad (Nike?) that I just loved. It read: You are born. And oh, how you wail! Your first breath is a scream. Not timid or low, but selfish and shattering, with all the force of waiting nine months under water. Your whole life [...]
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This post was written by Elissa of Dress with Courage. What do you see when you look in the mirror? Where do you focus your attention? If you’re anything like me, your eyes zero in on the areas that you think need the most improvement, are ashamed of, or otherwise cause your distress and anxiety. [...]
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This post is written by Caitlin of Fit and Feminist. Recently, I came across a blog post by a personal trainer in which she explored the one of my least favorite terms as applied to women’s bodies – the word “bulky.” Any weight-training woman is familiar with this term, as it is often the first [...]
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