Life
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Why Everything Is Personal
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Why I Don't Tell People I Was In A Cult
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I Don’t Know What I Weigh: The Case For Stepping Off The Scale
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Why Men Need To Feel Their Feelings
By Jayson Gaddis
On Survivor's Guilt
By Emily RappMay 15, 2013
Three months since the death of her son, Emily Rapp discusses the guilt she faces as life charges on. Today marks the three-month anniversary of my son Ronan’s death. It’s spring now, and he died in late winter, in the early hours of a bitterly cold morning. Now the birds are out, chirping and fighting for nest space on the roof. Green buds have blossomed on the trees in the front ...
I Have An Eating Disorder And No One In My Life Knows
By Kristen ForbesMay 14, 2013
Kristen Forbes has been quietly dealing with her binge disorder in therapy and felt that she earned the right to keep it to herself, but she wants and needs help. "Do you want to jump?" My boyfriend and I gazed at tall rocks overlooking the turquoise ocean in Hawaii. After driving on the road to Hana for hours, we were out in the salty air, feeling the heat of the sun as it pressed down on us...
An Open Letter To Angelina Jolie
By Steph HMay 14, 2013
Steph, who had a preventative mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, welcomes Angelina Jolie to the sisterhood. Dear Ange, First off, can I call you that? Ange? Because we're practically sisters at this point. I'll take that as a yes. Moving on. Until yesterday, Ange, you and I had approximately three things in common: we are both, ostensibly, of the same species; we both married ve...Want to Start Talking?
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