Joni Edelman

You do not have to hate your body — but you don’t have to love it either. While I'm happy with my fat body, I miss being thin.

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

Do you want people to for-sure panic? Tell them not to panic.

Can we just take a pause to consider all of the total fucking bullshit to which we subject ourselves?

Chronic stress secretes a hormonal cocktail that wreaks havoc on that amazing body you have. Here's how you can chill your adrenals and reduce stress.

Our relationship has been a little complicated. I've loved you a lot, and I've loathed you at least that much, but mostly you've just gone unnoticed. Except for those 5 to 7 days every four weeks when you made your presence quite evident, what with the river of life blood and the random excruciating, and from what I can tell, unnecessary, contractions.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

Attention Civilians: Colonel David Iverson does not want to see your boobs.

As the mother of three teens, I'm here to tell you: You have nothing to freak out about.