Winona Dimeo-Ediger

Recently, I challenged myself to something radical: What if I didn't wear makeup for awhile?

"But I'm your friend! I'm like your cool big sister that makes you feel insecure and unworthy 99% of the time!"

You might think that being on a budget means you can’t afford to dress like a super rich, fashion-forward celebrity, but girlfriend, you are wrong about that!

"Cute dress!" "This? I literally found it in a dumpster behind Baja Fresh."

Don’t want your relationship to stagnate? Then make spontaneity a priority. The scope of your spontaneous activities doesn’t matter as much as the frequency.

As we prepare to take to the streets to protest the inauguration of a racist, sexist, xenophobic demagogue, we need to LOOK GOOD doing it.

For example, if you’re having gastrointenstinal distress, resist the urge to hashtag it with something generic like #diarrheacramps. Instead, include your first and last name and the date to make it your own: #LynnSmithDiarrheaCrampsFebruary2016.

These things could never happen. But WHAT IF THEY DID?

Including: public transit inversion pose and heart-opening "shut up, mom" pose.

The thing is, we soak in these body-judging lessons from a very young age, before we even know how damaging they are. Some of the messages are implicit, like when we see a fat girl getting made fun of on the playground (or, for many of us, when we are the fat girl getting made fun of on the playground) and learn that being fat is not just wrong, it’s a punishable offense.