Lust is not love. Lust can feel great though, and provide a temporary dopamine rush. It can make you feel sexy and admired and wanted. But t

Every other week I meet with a dietitian who teaches intuitive eating. Because of my long and fraught history with an eating disorder, this type of approach ...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog HERE.] Lot's of hyphens in that title, huh? I'm turning 27 today, somewhere around 9:30 p.m. My birthday is also my ...

This post, like last Thursday's, was inspired by an old(er) man on Facebook. Keep the ideas coming, fellas. For those of you who didn't read my last blog, I w...

The other day, I posted the below photo and poem on Facebook and Instagram. I'd like to point out right off the bat, that this poem is decidedly not that sad...

This post was prompted by some mild Facebook arguing, which is as useless as it is disingenuous, so c'est la vie. I'd also like to assuage any men out there w...

[Listen to an audio version of this podcast HERE]. We met at a local bar, a place we both had never been before and likely, would never go to again. We didn'...

[An audio version of this blog can be found HERE]. As I've dipped my toe back into the wild world of dating, I've noticed a striking pattern in the comments ...

~2014 I glanced at my reflection in my full-length bathroom mirror and quickly looked away, repulsed by what I saw. My arms were fat, I thought. And I hated...

The internet is a weird and wonderful place. My online presence, and anyone's online presence, is necessarily flat. How we define ourselves online is how the...

One irrevocable trait of a bad listener is that they are quick to offer advice, especially when it is not wanted.

Many people have relatives who, if asked how the blood ties are bound, would shrug and say, "Beats me." There are the Godmothers we call "Aunt," the family f...

According to a report from Running USA, the sport of running is dominated by women-nearly 63 percent of registered road racers in 2017 were female and about ...

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841 As I wrote earlier this week, humans search for peace in many different places and in m...

Hard data on self-esteem is hard to come by. Humans are infallible beings with large egos, so admitting that we have low self-esteem can feel like a failure ...

"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others." ~ Brene Brown Brene Brown, a research profe...

There were the "bad" foods that I considered "off-limits." Candies, cakes, donuts, cookies, ice cream, white bread, sugared cereals, crackers, juice, soda, s...

There is a website called Refinery29 that sends me countless emails every week, and because of the catchy headlines and pithy writing, I am their slave. I cl...

“Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about.” Benjamin Lee Wharf, American Linguist When I was studying for my undergraduate deg...

“Intuition is the nose of the heart.” ― Amit Kalantri A while back, I wrote a blog about how unnecessary the Myers Briggs personality test is (read it here)....