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She was vocal about the condition up and down the red carpet, telling reporters she wanted to set a good example for her daughter. "I do feel and hope it’s made other people’s lives better… because postpartum depression was not something that I ever understood. You could never understand it unless you have a personal involvement with it," she said.

After the positive test and the cautious excitement of we're having a baby! came what felt like a literal gut punch — intense, chronic, debilitating morning sickness. I'd wake up and be okay until it was time to get out of bed and try to make it to work. As soon as I was vertical, the nausea would kick in and I'd run to the bathroom.

They don’t care about you. As long as you are meeting their ransom demands, the rest of your life is irrelevant.

I'll freely admit it: I'm a bit of an iPhone addict. My phone is always on me or within arm's reach, like a security blanket. I keep my sounds and alerts off but I check it all the time and notifications for email, Facebook, Ebay, even my freaking meditation program come popping up all day.

I say this: Stop fat-shaming my toddler son. Fat will not make him fat. Fat does not make him unhealthy.

Here are some further thoughts on miscarriage, the Internet, and how we can be supportive to women going through one.

“I don’t even know what to say, Joni. Your baby isn’t alive.”

Is it just me, or is our society’s youth today really struggling with respect? I’ve worked with kids for years and I’ve got three children of my own. Things that didn’t fly when I was a kid (and that wasn’t so long ago!) are either ignored or let go. An example: I’d never even dream of calling my teachers or parents by their first name.