Feel Better, Do Better: A Health and Wellness Pep-Talk for Moms {Part 5}
Raise your hand if one of your New Year’s resolutions was to lose weight or achieve a certain fitness goal! Come on! Most of us (me too) probably have our...
Diary of a Plus Size Mom
by Erin Statz
I sometimes struggle with my body image. In my 33 years of life, I have seen bodies constantly judged near and far including my own. In my case, always being...
Take Your Moments to Take Care of Yourself, Momma
Last week, after an exhausting day, I crawled into bed and laid right down onto of my son’s pee stain, cuddled up and went to bed. In peace. That’s when...
Mom Hair at its Worst
Stretch marks? Ok, I knew they were coming. Areas of stored “brown fat” my midwife told me would be impossible to exercise away until I was done nursing? Made my...
Ways to Gain in the New Year
During a new year, we are surrounded by constant messages to lose weight. Join a weight loss challenge, start an elimination diet, and workout until exhaustion. These are all common...
Work Life Balance: Be Flexible or Be Dead
I often get asked about work-life balance, and as a female entrepreneur managing seven-year old twins, a four-year old, and training for this year’s Boston Marathon, I find myself saying,...
Feel Better, Do Better: A Health and Wellness Pep-Talk for Moms {Part 4}
In this installment of my series, I want to talk about something that’s on the minds of most of the moms I talk to on a daily basis: weight loss....
Postpartum Hair Loss & Bed Sweats
What in the… You guys. This is no joke. There are so many things. So many things you get told about what to expect for your postpartum recovery. The depression,...
Strong, Not Skinny
The mantra “strong is the new skinny” has been gaining currency online for some time now. It signals a move away from “thinness” in favor of a more achievable “real”...
Dear Postpartum Body
Dear Postpartum Body, You’ve been through a lot this year. You expanded to hold a healthy, seven pound, ten ounce baby boy. And then, like a flower reaching up for...
Motherhood: Acceptance and Perseverance
Motherhood is a balancing act. We’re constantly navigating the extremes of parenthood, finding our place between worry and nonchalance, planning and spontaneity, protecting and letting go. Motherhood is a continual evaluation...
I Am A Twin Cities Family: Melissa Taylor
Continuing our I Am A Twin Cities Family series, we’re welcoming Melissa Taylor, Owner of Beauty Lounge Minneapolis located in the heart of Northeast. Melissa’s passion is to empower people to...
Yoga Gave Me Strength Off the Mat
{Photo credit: Nik Linde} Going through a 10-year battle with infertility made me realize how much my yoga practice gave me strength. During this time, I needed to be in...
My Daughter Will Only Wear Dresses
We found out that our eldest daughter was a girl months before she was born, but still went with a gender-neutral yellow for her nursery. We didn’t register for anything...
