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Nourish & Move: The Ultimate Guide to Postpartum Fitness for Nursing Moms
Discover safe, effective breastfeeding friendly workouts. Reconnect with your body, boost energy, and nourish your fitness journey postpartum.
How to Deal with Meltdowns
As I prepare to talk about how to work with children on the autism spectrum with my co-workers and staff at my job, it made me think about one of the many key elements… how to handle a child’s meltdown. What’s my job? I work at a gym’s child care, the place where you can […]
Why My Son Will Never Play Football
My 17-year-old son has always been a sports-first kind of boy. We have a Polaroid of him holding a basketball before he could crawl. He took his first steps on Superbowl Sunday – because he was trying to get as close as possible to the TV screen. Poker is a sport in his view, because […]
If You Want to Be Happy, No One Can Stop You
(This essay is adapted from the June 16, 2004 Briar Woods High School Commencement speech delivered at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia.) Thank you for sharing this awesome, auspicious day with me. A few years ago, a close friend from high school, who had known me since I was 12 years old, offered an observation about my life that got my attention. My friend told me: “You’ve had so many bad things happen …
Daughters In Danger
I have two teenage daughters. I was a teenage girl myself once. So anorexia is not a foreign concept to me.Especially because the summer before I went to Harvard, I lost 40 pounds myself. I spent my freshman year gaining the weight back, which was hard enough (think 1,600 classmates watching you change a pants size every month). But the really steep climb to mental health was admitting I had almost killed myself …