Joni Edelman

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

As a stay-at-home mom, I've made plenty of sacrifices. Where are my accolades?

In honor of World Bipolar Day, I present a sample stream of consciousness based on my experiences living with this disorder.

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

When it comes to your physique, your mind can actually work against you.

I don’t think of myself as fat. Not inside, anyway.

Let's get to it—a primer on The Sex.

A weekly trip to Walmart would end in tears — first theirs, then mine. Them pining in the toy aisle. Me saying no. Over and over. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to buy my kids whatever they wanted, it was that I couldn’t.

My cocktail is wrong. It’s a gin and tonic with only gin. It’s a martini with 10 olives. And I can’t stand the sun. Not today. Not this month.

You may have seen the acronym "HAES" floating around the Internet, and that is because the "Health At Every Size" movement has taken over THE WHOLE WORLD.