Amanda Edwards

I hope my kids have learned from this talk about suicide. I hope that they understand the gravity of bullying and the importance of compassion.

Sick days don’t have to be all bad. And if you can manage to stay healthy yourself, you might just find yourself back at work feeling even better.

I am doing a few things to prevent my children from inheriting my eating disorder, and I’m hoping and wishing and praying that it works.

The most valuable thing though, being a therapist with mental illness, is that I get it. I know how desperate you feel to change your life.

That’s when I decided that Snapchat shows me how I look to other people — which is pretty damn gorgeous! And then, I felt the self-love start to flow.

So I tell my boss that I probably have shingles and she’s like, “What?! You’re way too young to have shingles!” and I say, “Thank you!"

Spring Break has the potential to be quite awesome. Here are some slightly adulty but not at all boring things to occupy your very own Spring Break.

As a therapist, I specialize in families dealing with trauma. My work is hard, so like any good therapist, I engage in self-care. Yet, it's not enough.

For me, yoga is a big part of how I show myself love and care, and it’s also part of how I teach these things to my children.

After we had our first kid, we decided it would be a good idea to have a weekly standing sex date. Yes, we started scheduling sex!