Thanks for this! I’m an American moving to London this Fall and am so curious about all the adjustments I’ll have to make, including a lot I hadn’t anticipated. Worried about the weather though :(

This is great insight, thank you! Our FY is July-June, so budgeting is starting soon. As a manager, how would you feel if one of your employees spoke about how their pay was demotivating? Or is that inappropriate?

Jezzies, wildly unrelated but I am crowdsourcing advice because I am having equal pay issues. :( I found out yesterday an entry level position for someone with no experience is being offered at the same salary that I currently make. Since starting at my job 2+ years ago I asked for a raise twice, once I was given…

Can you share what brand? I looove my Beauty Blender but I have the same issue—too lazy to clean everyday and 20$ is a lot!

I fucking lost it when Archie waved the gun in Sweet Pea’s face, like outright cackled. It was like a little kid playing pretend.

I am soooo happy I work with people I genuinely like. Work is work and sucks a lot of the time, but most days I genuinely look forward to coming into the office and seeing these people. Even if my social life feels meh, I can connect with my coworkers 40+ hours a week and that feels really good.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 53, she was in remission for 15 years until she got diagnosed again this past February. I was 8 when she was first diagnosed, now I am 23, and I have to say that it is a lot fucking scarier when you’re a grownup and fully realize that your mom has a…

I am so, so sorry. I hope you are able to be strength and peace.

I’d add that some people also are too sick to even wait for the meds and therapy to kick in and make it better. That doesn’t make them cowardly either, or lazy, it just makes them very depressed.

This video is exactly what I needed to get me through the rest of the afternoon, thank you!!!!

Yeah this season is my first time watching any of the Bachelor franchises and I was so uncomfortable with how they handled Dean’s family. He went through a major trauma at a young age that he clearly did not get adequate support for, and now he and his family’s pain is being exploited. I mean, he did sign up for the…

My mom had me-her first and only child-at 44. Everyone is always surprised to find out how old she is (almost 70 now!) because she seems younger. I think having a daughter going through puberty while you’re going through menopause does that to you, lol.

Your daughter will be so lucky to have a mom like you. My mom’s diet talk was very toxic for me growing up, and even when I talk with her about it now, she still doesn’t realize that pinching her stomach in front of me or talking about how “bad” she’s been is really, really painful for me to hear. Best of luck in…

Super cliche but recognizing there’s a problem with your relationship with your weight is the biggest hurdle to overcome—so you’re probably much better off than you think. It took me a while to admit even to myself that I wasn’t just making “healthy choices,” I had a mental disorder. I also have G.A.D. which was…

It makes me feel super isolated because the only time I want to hear about what you eat is if it’s some delicious recipe. It’s hard because I’m really into weight lifting (which honestly helped me recover, too), so I do care about nutrition, but I don’t want to hear that you can only have brown rice and raw veggies…

Yeah that was a hallmark of the early days of my ED, back when i was just “being healthy.” My senior year my college dining hall stared promoting that My Fitness Pal app and “good” choices to make—luckily by this point I had my own apartment and cooked most of my own meals, but ugh! You can just eat without writing it…

Yes! My mom has struggled with her weight (and the pressures of diet culture, though she won’t ever admit it) and always calls foods good or bad, or worse, calls herself good or bad for what she eats, and my dad is constantly reminding her that food has no instrinsic moral qualities. A jar of Nutella is not a…

Sometimes I’ll try to be like “no, you’re allowed to eat anything!” or “one cookie won’t kill you” in like an offhand, jokey voice, because I’m so scared if I talk about it too much I’ll be some weird food pusher or everyone will know about my weird history with food, which I still really struggle with discussing.…

Oh God, when I started my ED behaviors and everyone complimented me on being so thin, that’s when I really fell down the rabbit hole. I thought people wouldn’t like me anymore if I gained weight, because they’d see me as a failure, because we’re taught that thin=willpower and fat=lazy. I’m in recovery now and still…

I’ve never seen any of these films (my age and my unwillingness to be triggered has prevented me), but I really wish there were more movies that talked about diet culture and how it leads to EDs.