Reel Girl

When your child is complaining about something you did, perhaps you were late to pick her up (there was horrible traffic), something you said embarrassed her (you just wanted to stick up for her), or you made her take music lessons ten years ago (you thou…

When my teen daughter refused to go to school, I was shocked and terrified.

On Reel Girl, I’ve been blogging for years about raising my kids as intuitive eaters so now we have archive of something I think is pretty rare: a record of what it was like to bring up daughters with no eating disorders.

Are mental health diagnoses at a young age illuminating, making way for clarity, effective medication, community, and treatment or pathologizing in a way that pigeonholes kids and keeps them stigmatized and stuck?

In my email last week, I received brilliant words from Discovering the Inner Mother author Bethany Webster.

In a recent interview, when actress Naomi Watts said “Tolerate my jowls,” she made clear it’s not her job to surgically alter her face so you don’t feel uncomfortable.

Dear Harvey, On the day after the 98th Academy Awards, to celebrate and honor your long and significant contribution to American cinema, I’m going to give you some free advice.

—Bethany Webster, author of Discovering the Inner Mother ‘The mother-daughter bond has been one of patriarchy’s most effective means of reproducing itself through generations’ —Bethany Webster, author of Discovering the Inner Mother What do you feel when…

Finally, last night, my family watched the finale of Stranger Things.

You’ve heard of the trauma responses: fight, flight, and freeze, but have you heard of fawning?

When my teenage daughter was in residential treatment for behavioral health challenges, she would tell her therapists about the time my husband kicked her out of his truck on the freeway.

Mostly, I bought The Academy because the novel is based on my former high school, St.