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We Need to Normalize Black Moms Breastfeeding

By Shanicia Boswell — 2021

Looking into the history of breastfeeding in the Black community helped me to understand a deep generational curse.

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New Mothers, Let’s Talk About Your Professional Identity Crisis

Parenthood — especially for women — changes you. After giving birth, the brain actually redesigns itself, trimming old connections and building new ones. If you’re someone who has constructed your adult identity around your career, these changes to how you operate can shake your foundations.

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Janna Koretz
2020
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Dear Therapist: I Survived Cancer, but Now I’m Afraid My Husband Resents Me

“For your husband, your illness may have made him acutely aware of not just your mortality, but also his own.”

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Lori Gottlieb
2019
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For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

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Naveen Kumar
2019
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“Some Days It’s Incredibly Difficult”—One Mom Reveals What It’s Like to Co-Parent With an Ex

Every other weekend, on the first, third, and fifth Fridays of the month, my four-year-old son goes to spend the weekend with his father.

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Jackie Effenson
2019
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Partying to Parenting: Mom Shame Made Me Question Everything About Myself

I never felt much shame until I had my child.

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Liz Tracy
2019
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Being a Mother Is Hard. Being a Mother Living with Anxiety Is Harder.

Being a mom with anxiety, hard as it is, is actually the only kind of mom I want to be.

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Elizabeth Laura Nelson
2018
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To My Fellow Mommies With Anxiety

Something that seems to be taboo among the mommy community is feeling like you aren’t cut out for motherhood or “complaining” — for lack of a better word — about how motherhood is just too hard.

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Kelli Rose
2016
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This Is What Being a Mom with Generalized Anxiety Disorder Is Like

My sister asks if she can take my son, her nephew, to the park—I say no, because if she were to get into a car accident with him and he died, I could never forgive her.

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Tiffany Jenkins
2018
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How I Learned to Cope with My Anxiety after Becoming a Mom of 2

I couldn't stop it, I couldn't control it and I was wasting these amazing years with our two little kids because I was too embarrassed and because I resented these feelings.

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Kelsey Cadger
2019
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Being a Parent When You Have Anxiety

I was diagnosed as a teenager with generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety. Everything gave me anxiety: people, schoolwork, making decisions—it all made me panic. Over time, I learned strategies to handle my anxiety. Then I had kids.

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Vanna Winters
2019
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