Joni Edelman

"Food isn't the enemy –– calling it the enemy is the enemy."

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

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

91% of women report dissatisfaction with their body. Ninety-one. I know you know math—that’s 9/10 of women.

...I’m going to help you! By “help” I mean “tell you all the things that didn’t work.”

My decision to bed-share with my children despite potential SIDS risks has less to do with studies, and more to do with instinct.

I said (on TV, to Rachael Ray, so there are a few million witnesses): If you want a bikini body, put a bikini on your body.

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

Is that incense I smell? A drum circle in the distance perhaps? Chanting? Herbal potions? Perhaps a cauldron? Could it be homebirth?

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?