A Room of my Own!

Submitted by: Robin Dake I did not like getting a divorce. Divorce is painful and wrenching. It is ugly. It is the death of dreams. Divorce is not something anyone aspires to. However, now that we have slogged through the year of proceedings and court dates and oppressive emotions, I have a confession to make: [...]

One Laser Treatment Made The ‘Outer Me’ Glow Like The New ‘Inner Me’

Submitted by guest writer, Jewel R. This past February marked the four-year anniversary of my divorce.  It also marked my 42nd birthday.  But even though I’d made tremendous strides since divorcing, even though I felt happier and more confident than I had in years,  when I looked in the mirror all I could think was,  ‘blah.’  [...]

Mini Makeovers: New Look For a New Life?

Submited by: Big Little Wolf One of my rules to live by? Don’t make major decisions under stress or duress. And post-divorce life certainly qualifies on both counts. When I was newly single again, I realized that I wanted a new look for a new life, but I wasn’t sure what that might be. I [...]

Nervous Wreck: A Separated Mom Tries Botox

Submitted by Me & My Evil Twin Sitting in the medical spa waiting room, I flipped through a magazine without seeing a word.  My brain was wrought with worry:  what if it hurt?  What if I passed out? What if my face ended up looking so frozen, people referred to me as the Botox Queen? The receptionist [...]

Facial Yoga: Eliminate Wrinkles the Natural Way

In New York City, Annelise Hagen, a devoted yogi, former actress and author of The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles with the Ultimate Natural Facelift, runs a weekly facial yoga class. Hagen says she started to develop her face-based technique when she realized that her students, mostly well-to-do, well-educated professionals, were practicing yoga but getting Botox [...]

Top 5 Eye Creams: Say Goodbye to Crow’s Feet

Submitted by: Cathy File this under “sad but true”: The first signs of aging—crow’s-feet—show up earlier than we ever realized. In happier news, the right eye cream can make all the difference. It has been years since those first fines lines around the eyes or crows feet started showing on my face. Not being a [...]

Black Clothes Suck The Energy Out Of Your Face

Like most women, I’m guilty of it too – that is, I often wear black clothes simply because they’re slimming.  And when we feel slimmer, we often feel better about ourselves, right? But what if wearing black next to our faces makes our eyes look dull and our skin blotchy and shadowy?   In other words, what if black on most of us, [...]

Beware the Loose, Wrinkly, Unsymmetrical Vagina!

Submitted by Delaine   So apparently the look and feel of our vaginas are one more thing we’re suppose to be concerned about as we rebuild our lives after divorce.   Haven’t you heard?  We’re supposed to be as pretty and symmetrical as a text-book drawing.  Are you a little one-sided?  Stretched out?  Perhaps a [...]