I’ve been in therapy for months now and I’ve learned a lot. Namely, that feeling emotions is challenging for me.
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I want "gold digger" to include men that use women's emotional labor to "evolve" and "become better people." As I came across this quote on Instagram today, I began to reflect on 2018 and remind myself just how far I’ve come.
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Feeling the pressure to come up with a gift guide right before Black Friday since “everyone else is doing it” and it was an opportunity to earn a little extra money from affiliate links. Trust me, I had good intentions when I created the feminist gift guide, but I got hella lost on WHY I created it and, more important, what it reflected of my personal and professional brand.
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Parent-child relationships heavily influence a person’s life. Ideally, parents are meant to guide and protect us, and be role-models for their children. Unfortunately for some parents, it just isn't in their nature. In my experience, it's fair to say it wasn't my mother’s fault.
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I’m writing this, because like Christine Blasey Ford, I was a “good, private school girl” who was attacked by a piece of shit dude at a party who took what he wanted. And I buried it, deep and away, for a long time.
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When I walked into Chinatown’s E-Street Cinema to watch “Sorry to Bother You”, a film by Boots Riley, one of my partner’s favorite hip-hop artists and activist, I had NO IDEA what kind of fantastical rabbit hole I was getting into.
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No matter what the world threw at me, no matter my age, it was particularly important that I, a female, push through. I was to take life's lemons and make lemonade. I was to do it graciously, with a smile, and to have compassion on the idiots who threw the lemons at my head.
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Hello, I’m Charlie and I just moved across the country - alone - without a dog or a child or an office job #freelancelife and I’m lonely AS F****.
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Being a human is weird. Being a human with mental illness is downright rough.
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Recently Hank and I started attending couples therapy. There’s a lot of love between us but there are things we need help navigating. Hank did NOT want to go. In fact, due to a traumatic experience in his childhood he was convinced that all therapists were bad. Time and again we circled back around to the same issues and he finally agreed to go with me.
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While the current political climate is less than desirable, conditions for women at work seem to be improving (if we ignore #MeToo for a moment), for instance, did you know that women with graduate and undergraduate degrees represent about 50% of the workforce?
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I shaved my head this week. How does this relate to our topic of Motherhood you might ask? There are some parallels I promise! For one, people now touch me without my consent which is how I bet a lot of mothers feel.
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At 29, moving back to the US proved harder than my arrival in Chile six years earlier, where I knew no one. I was older and people were more established in their lives. My very first DC friend was a woman named Adelaide*. This is the story of our friendship.
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When I was 23 I got pregnant in a country where abortion is illegal. I had been in Chile, teaching English, for about 5 months and had known the man for even less time. Naively, I took a pregnancy test during the 15 minute passing period between classes. When the ‘+’ appeared it felt like my stomach had fallen out of my body. It’s still the only time in my life I’ve ever felt faint.
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