Joni Edelman

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

"Food isn't the enemy –– calling it the enemy is the enemy."

My mother didn't teach me how to be a mother. But my babies did.

With the help of the midwife—and immense effort on my part—Ella finally slid out into the water. But she was limp, pale. It was scary.

When I had my first child, I couldn't have prepared for the way it would make me feel.

[CN: suicide, overdose] Gratitude stops me from ending my life, but it doesn’t stop me from wanting to end my life. Even the fierce love I have for my family doesn’t mean I don’t feel utterly hopeless sometimes.

In honor of World Bipolar Day, I present a sample stream of consciousness based on my experiences living with this disorder.

Our relationship has been a little complicated. I've loved you a lot, and I've loathed you at least that much, but mostly you've just gone unnoticed. Except for those 5 to 7 days every four weeks when you made your presence quite evident, what with the river of life blood and the random excruciating, and from what I can tell, unnecessary, contractions.

In today's HELLO, OBVIOUSLY news: National Coffee Day.

"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."