Joni Edelman
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Joni Edelman Articles
91% of women report dissatisfaction with their body. Ninety-one. I know you know math—that’s 9/10 of women.
Read...Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.
Read...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.
Read...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
Read...You do not have to hate your body — but you don’t have to love it either. While I'm happy with my fat body, I miss being thin.
Read...We've got Trump, Vladimir, Comey, and all the other players lined up for you. Here are the facts, followed by our IRL translation, to make sure you know that you know all abouts that latest (and possibly tenure-ending) Trump scandal.
Read...Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?
Read...Sleep is everything! It's so much more than just feeling like you can function well. You know that but do you know how to sleep for your dosha type?
Read...I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.
Read...So you fed your baby some formula instead of breast milk. His future is not shot. Really. It's not—and The Guilt serves no one.
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