Beyond Before & After

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?

Naps. Oh naps, how do I love thee? Let me count the Zzzzs.

There isn’t a middle-ground here, no ebb and flow of stress, no uncomplicated joy or sorrow in an everyday situation. There is only the most exhausting, most labile of emotive response.

I’ve done 200,000 Kegels, and a good joke will still make my panties wet (and not in a sexy time way). It's pee. In my pants. I pee my pants!

A bipolar, body-positive bread enthusiast with a fucked-up pretty much healed ankle and a history of disordered eating chroni

There are at least 1000 things I feel guilty about without even trying.

I look pregnant. This body has made six humans. This belly has been inflated and collapsed and inflated and collapsed, and so on. What should it look like?

The fifth birthday is a big deal. Five is kindergarten. It is reading and writing and riding your bike without training wheels. Five is the first milestone after the first birthday.