Joni Edelman

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

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

Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.

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It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.

So you fed your baby some formula instead of breast milk. His future is not shot. Really. It's not—and The Guilt serves no one.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

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

More and more programs are offering services to help companies support and retain women during their maternity transition.

Misogyny is pervasive. And my three boys are living it all.