The editorial staff here at Conversational is delighted to bring you the Style Issue this month, and we thought we’d kick it off with one of our favorite topics: beauty products. To know us personally is to know how very different each of us is. We share common ground, but we always have unique opinions, differing personal goals, and truly unique senses of style…
Read MoreOn January 11, 2017, I was diagnosed with stage 3a breast cancer at age 29. Life as I knew it would never be the same. I had to change everything from my eating habits to the people who surrounded me. It was bad enough that toxicity reached its way into my body…
Read MoreLet me be honest, I don’t have a six-pack. I still have cellulite and a little jiggle in my belly. But I have no issues with my blood pressure or cholesterol, and I can probably deadlift more than most guys you know. No, my diet isn’t perfect — I still eat cake and enjoy a glass of wine…
Read MoreIs this normal? Am I doing everything I should be? Am I making the correct healthy choices? Is this pregnancy weight, or put-that-third-cheeseburger-down weight? These are some of the typical questions I, as a pregnant woman, will ask myself throughout the day…
Read MoreHave you ever lost someone close to you? Me too. My life has been touched by all types of dying. And, you know what? Nothing in life prepares you for death. Interesting since it’s the only certainty. Is this because we don’t talk about death while we still can?
Read MoreI think I’m going to die young. Please hear me: I don’t want to meet an early demise… I just think I probably will. We can blame it on the casual nihilism of certain sects of country folk, or all the rock music I’ve delighted in through the years, or the fact that few people in my family have made it out of their fifties alive.
Read More’m really not the crusading type. Honestly, I don’t have the time or energy to pick up a righteous cause, after all the full-time working and momming and volunteering and writing is done. But, if I were a crusader for a cause, it would be organ donation. More specifically, kidney donation.
Read MoreHe’s cheating on me. And has been since the very beginning. Since we met. Before we met, I guess, since it started with someone I knew he was sleeping with before me.
Read MoreYou’ve seen it a thousand times. On every sitcom there’s always the husband, hinting at sex while his wife feigns a headache or playfully brushes him off. That’s how it’s supposed to go, right? Not in my bedroom.
Read MoreUntil relatively recently, if a woman desired special undergarments for any type of lady leakage, she was forced to shuffle into her local drugstore and purchase — in front of God and everyone — an unwieldy box of what amounted to puffy adult diapers from an aisle with INCONTINENCE emblazoned overhead. There was room for improvement here.
Read MoreFor these two women, one of our most basic bodily functions as humans just... hurt. They agreed to tell us their stories.
Read MoreFirst, let me congratulate you on getting this far. No, you’re not the first girl to ever get the urge to buff her muffin, but in a society that still upholds a sad double standard when it comes to masturbation, your decision to practice some sexual self-care can feel like a radical one.
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