Spinning
March 28th, 2019 | by Carla Rachel Sameth
She has begun to spin. Thirty minutes on the bike, thirty minutes on the weight circuit, trying to follow along.
Browsing the "On Balance" Category
On Extreme Kids: Finding A Space to Be
February 7th, 2019 | by Kate Lynch
We hear the glee and upset in dozens of voices, the trampoline squeaking and the ball pit rustling. We see
HOW TO MAKE A FAMILY
October 15th, 2018 | by Lakshmi Iyer
You want a baby. Babies. Your husband agrees, albeit begrudgingly. But month after month your hopes surge and fall. You
The American Family Road Trip: Traveling While Black
September 14th, 2018 | by Anna Doogan
In the remote mountains of Georgia, I slowly watch my knee swell to the size of a baseball. It’s red
The Common Denominator: An Inventory on the State of Motherhood in America
September 13th, 2018 | by Gina Frangello
In March, 2011, on a pleasantly cool afternoon in Virginia, a thirty-three-year-old mother of two, Kim Brooks, left her four-year-old
Things I Regret Saying: A Co-Parenting Comic
August 9th, 2018 | by Molly McIntyre
Becoming a mom plunged me into a new kind of adolescence, where everything I had learned about myself was suddenly
The Reveal: Celebrating Pregnancy After Loss
July 20th, 2018 | by Fiona Smart
As any mother who has suffered the loss of a baby during pregnancy will know, celebrating a subsequent pregnancy can
Wild and Precious: Breastfeeding As Formal Meditation Practice
July 19th, 2018 | by Meghan LeBorious
Resting against the wall, breastfeeding my tiny son in the quietest stretch of night, I watch from the fourth floor
A New Mother’s Dilemma: Does Asking Your Doctor for Help Make It Better or Worse?
July 13th, 2018 | by The Post Partum Stress Center
As part of The Postpartum Stress Center’s #speakthesecret campaign, author and international perinatal expert Karen Kleiman teamed up with artist Molly
The Frame: An Excerpt from 16 PILLS
July 12th, 2018 | by Carley Moore
I went on what I then swore would be my last first internet date during winter storm Jonas. He spoke Spanish,