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Good for a girl: self-esteem and body image in women’s sports
Self-esteem for women in sports starts to shift at a certain age: the age a girl stops just playing and starts being looked at. The sport is the same. What changes is that her body becomes something to judge, not only something to use. A lot of self-esteem goes...
Social Media and Self-Esteem: Why We Can’t Stop Comparing
If you tell someone you're not on social media, they look at you a little strangely, like, what do you mean, why not. It's gotten to a point where being on it is just assumed, and not being on it is the thing you have to explain yourself for. As of the start of last...
Dads Are Human Too: The Quiet Weight Fathers Carry and Rarely Say Out Loud
You can be right there at the dinner table, passing the potatoes and asking about everyone's day, and still be somewhere else at the same time, half of you running the week in your head, thinking about how little of it you got with the kids, and about the thing at...
The Mental Load Nobody Sees: On Being the One Who Remembers Everything
The mental load shows up when you're at the dinner table with your phone in your hand again, and your partner looks up from across the table and asks why you're always on your phone, can't you just be present, it's family dinner, and something in you goes quiet and...
Loneliness in Friendships: When You Have Friends but Still Feel Alone
Loneliness in friendships shows up when it's one of those nights where you're finally home with nowhere to be, and after a full day of people, of work and the gym and everyone wanting a piece of you, the couch and a show and a little silence should feel like the...
Feeling Loneliness in a Relationship: Why It Happens and How to Reconnect
Loneliness in a relationship can happen after you both had a long day at work, and now you're home, and there's dinner on the table because you made it, you were the one in the kitchen chopping and stirring after your own shift ended, and the whole time you were...
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