Joni Edelman

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.

"She has created an important space on the internet and in the real world, a space that women and girls are free to take up however they please."

I'll never forget the day I discovered the name for my mental illness.

Good god, where will I ever find someone who will love me in such a pitiful condition?

Nutritionists have weighed in on what to order at McDonald's. Here's what I think you should get instead.

Here’s something that isn’t rocket science either, Stephen Hawking: Diets don’t work.

Can we just take a pause to consider all of the total fucking bullshit to which we subject ourselves?

Is that incense I smell? A drum circle in the distance perhaps? Chanting? Herbal potions? Perhaps a cauldron? Could it be homebirth?

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge