Does Learning to Love Flawed People Mean Forgiving Them Too? [The Lesson of the Granny Panties!]

Granny panties, size XL, beige, used. They’d arrived in a plain brown envelope accompanied by a single tea towel dated to the ’70′s by the brown mushrooms that covered it. This was hardly what a girl dreams of getting for her all-important 12th birthday and yet there it was. But the worst part wasn’t the suspicious stains …

Fertile Pose: Should Yoga Be Sexy? Leading Yoga Guru and Random Lady At School Say Yes. Both In the Feeling and In the Having. [Full Body Shudder.]

Yoga as a wet t-shirt contest? Fail, Planet Yoga. Plus, her Bow Pose is really not that well done. Not that I’m judging other people’s yoga practice but I figure if you’re going to be modeling yoga for Planet Yoga you should probably at least try and get your knees together? Although this was my …

5 Reasons Why I Quit the Gym [My Great Fitness Depression Experiment]

Remember when Chandler tried to quit the gym? “I want a flabby stomach and man breasts!” His first mistake was taking Ross. Monica would have kicked leotard-girl’s butt. I miss this show so hard. I quit my gym this weekend. Despite pretty much hating it – they didn’t have classes that I liked, they kept …

From Orchid Child to Drama Queen to Highly Sensitive Person: A lifetime of walking around feeling like my skin is inside out

 Um… what is a yob?? No seriously, I have no idea. Photo Credit “Nooooo!” Jelly Bean shrieked, ripping her sock off for the twentieth time that morning. As I watched her carefully select another sock and pull it on – only to be frustrated yet again when the seam in the toe didn’t line up exactly …

The Strength Hack You Need to Try: New Research Gives Everyone Whiplash, Says Doing One Set of Weights May Be Better Than Three [What’s your go-to strength workout?]

All bodybuilders go to heaven… I actually found this painting at a thrift store. I can’t decide which I love more: the mullet or the muscles. (Or the 3.95 price tag!) Either way this has got to be the most terrifying guardian angel ever. Let’s just get this out of the way right now: You …

After Someone Stole My Photo And Used It For Thinspiration I Decided To Take It Back And Make My Own (Not)Fitspo

About a month ago I got a sweet note from my little bro, who is on the Internet so much he’d have a fiber optic cable attached to his brain Matrix-style… if that weren’t so low-tech. (I think his brain might actually be The Cloud. Shh.) Anyhow. “Uh, Shosh?” he wrote me. (Yes, Shosh is …

From Chinese Chicken to Contaminated Chickpeas: What the New Food Regulations Mean For Your Anxiety Level [Do You Have a Food Poisoning Story?]

“Chinese chicken” will soon have a whole new meaning thanks to a recent move by the USDA. While it has nothing to do with tasty sauces or sesame seeds, the news has everything to do with take-out as the USDA recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken grown in the U.S. …

What’s Your Worst Laundry Disaster? I’ll Tell You Mine if You Tell Me Yours! [Tide Pods $100 Giveaway!]

  “For not as good results drag behind car through puddles and blow dry on roof rack.” YESSSS! I have actually done this. (Not on purpose but it still ended up with a nice fresh scent!)Disaster was in the cards, er, dryer sheets, from the beginning on that fateful day. Whether it had been too …

Can Exercise Really Cure Insomnia? 5 Tips to Help You Sweat Your Way to Sleep. [Okay, gross visual. Sorry.]

Bad news: Jelly Bean has croup. (A virus characterized by a nasty cough that kind of sounds like a seal barking. Which my boys found hilarious. Which made Jelly Bean upset. Which made her cough harder.) Good news: She got a dose of steroids at the pediatrician’s this morning and she’s like a new kid. …

Jillian Michaels Calls Size Acceptance “Bullsh*t”: Brutal honesty or just brutal?

 Poor T-Rex! I’m so worried about him! Those shorty arms can’t be healthy! I’m basically the most insecure person I know. That may be partly because I don’t live in other people’s heads and spend too much time in my own. Or it may be because I watched too much “Daria” when I was younger. …