Joni Edelman

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

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.

1. All vaginas are good vaginas.

Sleep is everything! It's so much more than just feeling like you can function well. You know that but do you know how to sleep for your dosha type?

Nutritionists have weighed in on what to order at McDonald's. Here's what I think you should get instead.

It's always so good to know the folks doing the work you're doing.

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.

I'll never forget the day I discovered the name for my mental illness.

photo credit: Lindy West (instagram), by

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