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Self-love has become a ubiquitous platitude that promises a carefree life of ease, if you can only learn to love...
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It often seems that an inescapable truth of being a college student—and perhaps, of being human—is that we need to...
I have not always had a complicated relationship with exercise. When I was younger, I played soccer in the fall...
So, I think we can all admit that, as children, we learned more about puberty from Urban Dictionary than we...
For better or for worse, the media has always been an integral force in shaping my perception of my body...
I have found myself in many a situation that goes something like this: the person I’m with starts talking about...