My body on display: Society’s “standard of postpartum”.

May 3, 2017.Reading time 12 minutes.

I’ve read a few blog posts lately, and have seen several posts pop up over Twitter and Instagram that respond to those ugly, hateful messages that public figures see in their comments sections, or find in their inboxes target at their bodies. In an interesting twist of life events, I’ve personally had a sudden influx […]

Take Up Space.

October 10, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

Take up space. We’re hearing it more and more as more as more women, specifically, are breaking out of the molds society wants to tuck us neatly into. Taking up space, despite some of the forward progression in the movement of women’s equality, is hard. It shouldn’t be. So what exactly does taking up space […]

#takebackfitspo

March 21, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

Life never really goes as expected. Yet, we never fail to hope, and in some way, expect that it will. The entire time I was trying to get pregnant, and even when that miracle finally came, I had expected to gain a crap ton of weight. On both sides of my family, history shows a […]

Let’s talk ‘bikini bridge’.

January 16, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

My hair is long enough to have to tie back now. But it’s at that stage where you still need a bunch of clips to pin up the back bottom layers so I feel like a four year old struttin’ my stuff at the gym. However, that’s not what makes me a smidge annoyed today. […]

The Body War.

July 27, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

I thought of a way to title this blog for the entire day, and kept coming back to The Body War. Why war? Because that is exactly what is going on. A war. It’s not a discussion or a conversation, it is an all out war. And the media is fueling it. This won’t be […]