The Jennifer Aniston Effect is what happens when one woman’s truth makes millions of others visible. After twenty years of speculation about when Jennifer Aniston would have children—or why she had not yet become a…
View PostWhen I was going through IVF—and in the thick of not succeeding—I was depressed in a way I didn’t think was possible. People thought they were being comforting when they asked me, “Why don’t you…
View PostThe idea that women like me “chose career over kids” isn’t just wrong — it’s insulting.We didn’t trade babies for boardrooms. We didn’t coldly choose conference calls over lullabies. We fought for both — harder…
View Post“Never give up.” Wasn’t that what we’ve been told all our lives? Weren’t we told that “Losers never quit and quitters never win”? Well, I’m calling that the “Toxic Never Give Up” culture. Sometimes, you…
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