Category: Women

What a night I’ve had. Today started out pretty calm and boring. Wake up, get ready, get to work late, muster up enough energy to make it through the day and get some work done. Tonight though was the fun part. I made an appointment a month ago to get fake eyelashes applied at my…

Today is International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate not only being a woman but womanhood as a whole, honouring the many amazing, unique and incredible things that women have done and continue to do, the world over.  I’m thrilled to present this guest post in honour of the day by a young woman…

I am not, by nature, a very confident person.  I doubt myself.  For that matter, I doubt everything.  And so, like many people with eating disorders, I doubted my ability to get better.  For years, I thought I was too messed up to ever return to anything called normal. I was lucky.  I had family…

The existence of the ‘obesity epidemic’ and the typical ‘solutions’ for it help to prop up a number of industries. Obviously, the weight loss diet industry is a huge winner here, especially since research shows that even when fat people know that crash diets don’t work they still end up seeking help from companies who…

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a whole new lexicon of terms associated with pregnancy and new motherhood, er, make that the bodies of pregnant women and new moms. These catch phrases are a perfect fit for tabloid articles about how much this celebrity gained during those nine months or how fast that one was back…

The idea of an exercise program seems so intimidating.I drag myself to the gym a few times every year, and then inevitably quit.Even though I always feel better once I get into a routine of working out, I just hate the pounding noise, bright lights, rows of machines and factory-like atmosphere. I can’t keep up…

I started wearing a size 14 as soon as I hit 6th grade in middle school. That was around the same time that hit puberty and I guess Mother Nature thought that making my hips expand and putting weight on my thighs was the way to do it. Not saying I was thin in elementary school…

4 Unusual Ways to Feel Sexy There was a time when I could have cared less if I ever had sex again for the rest of my life. I didn’t feel loved (my marriage was falling apart) and I didn’t feel sexy, either. I was a new, lactating mother. I felt gross and sticky and…

3 questions to get clear on who you really want to call ‘friend’ If you were asked, “What’s the biggest challenge you face to create the friendships you really want,” what would you say? I’m going to let you in on a secret, your biggest challenge is not time or the inability to meet new…