Health and Mind-Body articles for SheKnows

I’m a Working Woman and Last Night’s Debate Made Me Cringe (October 10, 2016)
Just a Friendly Reminder: Your Body is Not a Number (December 8, 2016)
Unpopular Opinion: I Hate Office Holiday Parties (December 27, 2017)

Quitting Sex Was the Best Thing I Ever Did for Myself (July 9, 2020)
Millennials Are Trying to Shake the Stigma of Moving Back in With Their Parents (September 28, 2020)
Couples With Different Body Types Exist. Here Are Their Stories. (January 16, 2021)

Into the Matrix: How Trinity’s Rise Responds to the Witch Hunts of the Early Aughts (January 5, 2022)

“Our Flag Means Death” Champions the ‘Later in Life’ Coming Out Story (September 29, 2023)
“The English” Almost Has What It Takes to be a Revolutionary Western (November 7, 2022)

• The Disturbing Merchandising of The Handmaid’s Tale (May 10, 2018)

• The Gun Babe Phenomenon is Real and Complicated (March 25, 2019)

• What It’s Really Like to Be Fat in a World That Hates Fat People (September 27, 2018)

• The Best Show That Explores Sexual Assault (November 10, 2016)

• How could you betray me? A heart-to-heart with my Trump-voting father (November 28, 2016)
• Don’t tell Dad I’m voting for Hillary: young women on sexism in the family (September 28, 2016)
• Election year sexism against Hillary Clinton brought me closer to my mother (April 18, 2016)

• A Reverie of Small Details: An Interview with Kim Brooks (April 13, 2016)

• A Community Baby: Laura Bogart interviews Gina Frangello (October 30, 2016)

• Shrill normalizes fat people, and that’s a good thing (January 24, 2020)
• She’s a woman. She’s a superhero. Get over it. (December 13, 2019)
• The therapeutic rise of celebrity thirst culture (November 1, 2019)
• Why female rage won’t deliver a female president (May 30, 2019)
• True Detective season 3 paints a refreshingly real portrait of masculinity (January 14, 2019)
• The joy of having a bare face: how ditching makeup set me free (November 28, 2018)
• The survivor’s rage (October 1, 2018)
• Trump haters will love Rick Wilson’s scathing new book, Everything Trump Touches Dies (August 7, 2018)
• I see myself in Dietland (June 10, 2018)
• Why everyone hates Solo (May 22, 2018)
• Being a middle-aged woman is a super power, and Hollywood is finally catching on (March 20, 2018)
• Why our true crime obsession is bad for society (January 31, 2018)
• The decline of Portlandia (January 18, 2018)
• Bad Santa is the greatest holiday movie of all time (December 19, 2017)
• The genius of Riverdale and the teenage girls who love it (December 12, 2017)
• Why today’s TV needs more old-fashioned good guys (November 29, 2017)
• The Walking Dead’s explosive season 8 premiere (October 22, 2017)
• The surprisingly fascinating politics of The Walking Dead (October 20, 2017)
• How today’s female politicians became modern heroines (September 19, 2017)
• How the Twin Peaks revival weaponized our longing for homecoming (September 1, 2017)
• The rise of the political she-ro (July 13, 2017)
• The Leftovers comes to a cathartic, compassionate close (June 4, 2017)
• The Leftovers episode 7 recap: Kevin Garvey finally finds meaning (May 28, 2017)
• Twin Peaks is back. And it’s great. (May 22, 2017)
• The Leftovers just reminded us all that it is a staggeringly sad show (May 21, 2017)
• Why America desperately needs the Twin Peaks revival right now (May 19, 2017)
• The Leftovers episode 5 recap: What happens when Matt meets God (May 14, 2017)
• The Leftovers recap: ‘G’Day Melbourne’ (May 7, 2017)
• The Leftovers recap: The wrong Kevin (April 30, 2017)
• The beautiful impenetrability of The Leftovers (April 23, 2017)
• How Girls helped me grow up (April 17, 2017)
• I don’t own a smartphone — and I don’t want one (February 22, 2017)
• In defense of being unapologetically fat (January 26, 2017)

• That Time Barbie and I Had an Epiphany (July 28, 2023)
• “Blonde” is Little More Than Torture Porn (October 6, 2022)
• And Then There’s Mare (May 31, 2021)
• I Lost My Beloved Dog. Can I Ever Love Again? (November 22, 2019)
• Women’s Anger Was Supposed To Be A Reckoning? Why Isn’t It? (June 25, 2019)
• “Shrill” Demonstrates the Audacity of Self-Acceptance (March 12, 2019)
• Are TV’s Strongest Women Still Heroes, or Just Assholes? (December 10, 2018)
• Uma, You’re Still My Hero (February 5, 2018)
• Our Waking Nightmare Has Made “American Horror Story” Great Again (November 14, 2017)
• Why Are We So Critical of Female Superheroes? (June 7, 2017)
• Will Trumpism End the Republican Party? (May 10, 2017)
• Is Trump Just Another Toxic Cult Leader? (February 28, 2017)
• When They Go Low, We’re Gonna Have to Go Low, Too (January 11, 2017)
• I Swore I’d Never Buy a Gun. And Then Trump Got Elected (December 6, 2016)
• How the Hell Did We End Up With a Troll in Chief? (November 28, 2016)
• We Don’t Want a Mother-in-Chief, Louis C.K. We Want a President (November 4, 2016)
• Is There a Silver Lining to Trump’s Vile Comments About Women? (October 9, 2016)
• How Did Fake Writer JT LeRoy Draw Real Devotees? (September 28, 2016)
• What Hath Phyllis Schlafly Wrought? (September 8, 2016)
• RNC 2016 Is the Scariest Dystopic Reality Show We’ve Ever Watched (July 21, 2016)
• “The Americans’” Martha Hanson Is More Than Just a Sad Sack (April 26, 2016)
• When the Author You Love Writes a Novel You Don’t (November 9, 2015)
• Can I Turn My Feminism Off When My Shows Are On? (September 16, 2015)
• The Unsung Badassery of Sansa Stark (June 15, 2015)
• “The Americans” Is the Love Story I’ve Been Waiting For (April 7, 2015)
• “Fifty Shades” Whips Female Desire Out of the Picture (February 17, 2015)
• Katniss Everdeen Is More Than Just Your Everyday Warrior (November 17, 2014)
• If You Think Your Mom’s Awful… (November 4, 2014)
• We Don’t Need a Reason to Be Bad (October 16, 2014)
• Is Melissa McCarthy a Big Sellout? (July 9, 2014)

• Shrill‘s second season traces the exquisite joy and pain of growing up (January 10, 2020)
• Amazon’s Hanna packs a far weaker punch than its source material (March 29, 2019)
• In its final episode, Escape at Dannemora proves that Hell really is other people (December 30, 2018)
• In a brutish hour of TV, Escape At Dannemora takes us back to the beginning (December 23, 2018)
• Escape at Dannemora finally shows us the escape at Dannemora (December 16, 2018)
• Escape at Dannemora paints a brutal, ugly portrait of a marriage (December 9, 2018)
• Escape at Dannemora shows us its characters’ inner strengths (and a very swole Paul Dano) (December 2, 2018)
• Escape at Dannemora shows us the downsides of desire (November 25, 2018)
• In a compelling “Chapter One,” Escape at Dannemora shows that there’s more than one way to be imprisoned (November 18, 2018)
• Losing Rick Grimes is the best thing that can happen to The Walking Dead (November 3, 2018)
• In one of its better episodes, The Walking Dead makes a case for a reckoning (October 21, 2018)
• The Walking Dead shows that it can be a smart, nuanced series (when it wants to be) (October 14, 2018)
• In a breathtaking finale, Sharp Objects takes us to the underworld and back again (August 26, 2018)
• In a beautiful, bruising episode, Sharp Objects shows us the pain of being extraordinary (August 19, 2018)
• In a surprisingly tedious episode, Sharp Objects forgets what makes it such a special show (August 12, 2018)
• In “Closer,” Sharp Objects presents a not-so-grand unified theory of female pain  (August 5, 2018)
• In a powerful fourth episode, Sharp Objects explores the pain of a life left to wither on the vineh (July 29, 2018)
• In an intense third episode, Sharp Objects delves into the dark power of teenage girls (July 22, 2018)
• Sharp Objects delves into the thin line between obsession and devotion (July 15, 2018)
• Sharp Objects begins with a redemption story wrapped in a murder mystery (July 8, 2018)
• The Walking Dead reminds us that its side characters are its greatest strengths (March 19, 2018)
• The Walking Dead gives us one tantalizing flash of real darkness among all the table setting (March 11, 2018)

• Empathy for Chrissie Hynde: How Rape Culture Poisons Even Our Heroines (September 1, 2015)

• In Defense of Peggy’s Silence in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” (March 6, 2020)
• Nobody’s Meat: The Power of Hanna (March 6, 2019)
• A Tribute to Olivia, the Scene-Stealing Dog of “Widows” (November 27, 2018)
• The Savage Truth Within The Handmaid’s Tale (April 27, 2018)
• Hipster Misogyny: The Betrayal of “The Hateful Eight” (January 18, 2016)
• The Trouble with “Carrie”: Strong Female Characters and Onscreen Violence (October 23, 2013)

• In Job Training, a Little Support Can Go a Long Way (January 6, 2017)
• The New Front Line of Public Health (December 21, 2016)

• Lena Dunham and I both had hysterectomies, but I reject her grand, unified thesis of infertility (October 13, 2022)
• “Beauty treated like a beast”: The backlash against Donald Trump’s fat shaming of Alicia Machado shows how deep our fat phobia goes (October 4, 2016)
• “The Night Of” finale: At least we know the cat didn’t do it (August 29, 2016)
• “The Night Of” recap: Are we closer to discovering the truth? (August 22, 2016) 
• “The Night Of” recap: The trial of Naz begins (August 15, 2016) 
• “The Night Of” recap: When a “good boy” goes bad (August 8, 2016) 
• “The Night Of” recap: The defense gears up, the wild calls, and a slow burn erupts (August 1, 2016)
• “The Night Of” recap: Naz goes into the belly of the beast (July 18, 2016) 
• “The Night Of” recap: Down the rabbit hole (July 11, 2016)
• Sansa Stark has always been a warrior: She’s been fierce all along — and it kept her alive (June 28, 2016)
• “Game of Thrones” recap: Explosive season finale sets the great game in motion (June 27, 2016)
• “Game of Thrones” needs a new big bad: With Ramsay out of the way, a villainous void must be filled (June 26, 2016)
• “Game of Thrones” recap: The “Battle of the Bastards” may be the most intense episode yet (June 20, 2016)
• “Game of Thrones” recap: Say her name (June 13, 2016)
• What’s the deal with Daenerys? “Game of Thrones” needs to break its badass queen out of her rut (June 12, 2016)
• “Game of Thrones” recap: “Violence is a disease—you don’t cure it by spreading it to more people” (June 6, 2016) 
• “Game of Thrones” recap: Is power still a shadow on the wall, or does it come from standing in the light? (May 30, 2016)
• My body doesn’t need a cure: Sizeism, classism and the big-business hustle of the clean-eating industry (March 27, 2016)
• Holiday kitsch is killing us: I’ve had enough of these pageants of enforced feeling that leave us all empty (December 23, 2015) 
• I wanted to go as Daenerys Targaryen or The Bride — but, apparently, badass costumes are not for fat girls (October 30, 2015)
• My home on the Island of Daydreaming Girls — with Michael Fassbender, Marlon Brando, and Tom Hardy at my side (August 16, 2015)
• I will wear a swimsuit one day: Manifesto of a righteous fat-ass (May 31, 2015)
• I can’t forgive my mother (April 12, 2015)
• I’m trying not to hate men (December 31, 2014)
• Love at any size (August 3, 2014)
• I learned to never ask for help (June 7, 2014)
• Forgiving the dad who beat me (December 31, 2013)
• I choose to be fat (July 24, 2013)
• I’m terrified of the cicada onslaught (May 20, 2013)
• My best relationship is with my dog (February 23, 2013)
• Curse of my birthing hips (December 19, 2012)
• So much for “family values” (October 28, 2012)

• My Dog Provides The Love I’ve Always Been Searching For (September 1, 2016)
• The Creation Of Abusers: Analyzed and Explored (December 18, 2015)

• Forget Leaning In, It’s Time For Women To Push Back (October 27, 2017)
• The Cure For Cyberchondria (September 13, 2016)

• GONE GIRL’s Cool Girl: Hero or Villain? (October 17, 2014)
• Joan Rivers: A Trailblazer Who Got Stuck in the Mud (September 16, 2014)
• I Spit on Your Fairy Wings, and Your Little Dog, Too!: On MALEFICENT and Other Films (June 11, 2014)
• The Brando Standard: How Modern Actors Struggle Productively With Marlon Brando’s Legacy (April 25, 2014)

• The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Never Really Alone (May 16, 2015)
• The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Dormancy (May 4, 2014)
• The Rumpus Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (January 14, 2014)
• The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Rage (June 23, 2013)
• The Rumpus Review of Zero Dark Thirty (January 16, 2013)
• The Rumpus Review of Haywire (March 14, 2012)
• The Rumpus Review of Shame (January 4, 2012)

• Anything Less Than Extraordinary: Breaking Bad and American Ambition (August 5, 2013)
• Promises and Threats (May 4, 2013)
• The Great Unfathomable How (December 27, 2012)
• Review of Love, In Theory, by EJ Levy (November 5, 2012)
• The Best and Worst Parts of You (June 6, 2012)
• What The Hunger Games Gave Me (March 20, 2012)
• Things We Leave Behind (December 8, 2011)
• White Knights and Black Flags: A Look at Masculinity in Drive (October 11, 2011)
• We Only Said Goodbye With Words: A Tribute To Amy Winehouse (July 26, 2011)
• Confessions of a Prude: Why I Can’t Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the SlutWalk (June 8, 2011)
• The Mediocrity Exhibition (April 4, 2011)
• Tomorrow is a Long Time: Zombie Politics in Post-Obama America (December 28, 2010)
• What About Peggy Olson? (October 11, 2010)
• The Moments Between (August 3, 2010)
• A Driving Lesson (June 20, 2010)
• The Heart is the Haunted Place (May 24, 2010)

• The Converse-Station: Laura Bogart Interviews Antonia Crane (July 17, 2014)
• Control (March 23, 2014)