You could almost forget that the "cycle" we're trying to break here is the cycle of abuse. Cycle-breaking is the idea that we ...

So when I imagined having kids, it was always plural. If I was lucky enough to have one child, I knew I wanted to try to have ...

Climate change isn’t going to happen, it’s happening — not to someone else, but to me and my young children, now.

When Kirsta, a Milwaukee art teacher, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she started making Instagram reels to vent about her experience as an adoptee. In some of her most-viewed ...

When Trump won in 2016, there was a groundswell movement to protect women's rights. Suddenly there were seemingly endless books and think pieces about where women go from there, and how to raise ...

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When Erin Flores visited her doctor for a routine physical in 2016, she wasn’t expecting life-changing news. The discovery of a fibroid in the lining of her uterus left her with two conflicting ...

“Make sure you mix everything up good and scrape the bowl” was a common refrain I heard sitting at my grandmother’s kitchen table helping prepare meals. I’d heard it countless times, along ...

I turn away from my husband and his snoring, using my back to try to block out the light from my phone. It is my favorite time of day: 10 p.m., in bed, secretly scrolling my favorite app, NYTimes ...

Because we all know we’re supposed to foster our kids’ independence, but sometimes it’s easier said than done.

I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm competing against myself to prove that I can do this.

When news of the U.S. Surgeon General Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents hit my feeds in late August, I clicked on Dr. Vivek Murthy’s story in the New York Times with the ...