Winona Dimeo-Ediger

Dear Sensitive Soul: Are you having a hard time right now? Me too. I think a lot of us are.

If you’re feeling uneasy about your shopping habits, listen to your gut. There’s no downside to examining your habits and trying to get to a healthier, happier place.

Pinterest: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
Me: Wait, so maybe I should carry an umbrella, in case it rains and I want to dance?

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.

Suffering from a severe case of the frumps? Not anymore.

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

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.

If you don’t have a pair of pixie pants, girl, you need to get a pair of pixie pants.

Dear bikini manufacturers: Not all short, curvy women want to channel their inner Marilyn Monroe.

You’re washing dishes or sorting laundry or grocery shopping, half-listening to a random Pandora station when it happens: Your favorite song from 7th grade starts playing.