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This 30-Day Total Body Fitness Challenge Is Perfect For Holiday Travel

4 Ab Moves That Are Actually Safe During Pregnancy

7 Pieces You Can Breastfeed In That You Also Won’t Hate

9 Supposedly Normal Pregnancy Things I Have Not Experienced

How I Picked & Planned The Perfect Babymoon

Why This Expert Says Millennial Parents Have It Harder Than Any P...

There’s a weird thing that can happen when you’re pregnant: Even though you know childbirth is just one day (ish), and parenting lasts a lifetime, you

Take Back The Beach

How 1,000 Women Feel & Talk About Other People’s Bodies — & Their...

Between all the chatter about online body-shaming; Mean Girls-style trash-talking; and ugly, body-based tabloid speculation, it’s pretty much assumed tha

Serena Williams Didn’t Mean To Announce Her Pregnancy — & Neither...

A few months ago, I went to a live taping of the podcast 2 Dope Queens in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. It was amazing! Cohosts Jessica Williams and Phoebe

Witchcraft's New Branding — As Self-Care For Dark Times

Witchcraft is now seen a tool for self-care, especially when times are difficult — which, in a way, is what it was meant to be all along.

The 30-Day Challenge That Will Rock Your Sex Life

12 Places To Heal During The Holidays

How I Finally Got Over My Fear Of Driving

I grew up in the South and the Midwest, but some part of me has been a New Yorker for as long as I can remember. Yes, I dreamed about tall buildings, Broad

Hey, Why Don’t You Go To The Gym Tonight?

Look, it’s been a rough 24 hours. No matter how you feel about last night’s election results, I’m just venturing a guess that you’v

Instead Of A Drinking Game, Try This Election Night Workout

These Moves Will Strengthen Your Chest

30 Workout Moves You Can Do With Just A Yoga Mat

Why I Won’t Judge Women For Making Umbilical Cord Art

Welcome to Mothership: Parenting stories you actually want to read, whether you're thinking about or passing on kids, from egg-freezing to taking home

A Gchat Conversation About Body-Shaming & That Playboy M...

Update: Mathers' case has been investigated by the Los Angeles police department and is now being reviewed by the L.A. city attorney. CBS News reports

The Best No-Equipment Pilates Moves To Strengthen Your Core

Here Is Exactly What Happened When I Had A Miscarriage

Late this spring, I was pregnant, and then, just as summer arrived, I was not. It was scary and sad, and there are probably a lot of very emotional things

I’m A Personal Trainer & I Hate Running

Welcome to Workout Advice For Lazy Girls, where Refinery29’s deputy editor of Health & Wellness (who also just so happens to be an ACE-certified

Haven’t Worked Out In A While? Same.

Welcome to Workout Advice For Lazy Girls, where Refinery29’s Deputy Editor of Health & Wellness (who also just so happens to be an ACE-certified

The Most Effective 30-Day Arms Challenge Yet

The 27 Weirdest Things I’ve Googled Since I Started Trying ...

Why Am I Not Supposed To Tell You I’m Trying To Get Pregnant?

To mark National Infertility Awareness Week, Refinery29 is dedicating a full week of coverage to an open discussion about becoming a parent. Check out more

Would You Like To Experience My Aromatherapy Necklace?

Is there any feeling quite so confidence-boosting as knowing you smell good? You breeze past a stranger, or a friend leans in to divulge a secret, and you

My Number One Workout Rule: Don’t Listen Too Hard To Tracy Anderson

I’m not exactly surprised that celebrity fitness person Tracy Anderson’s recent interview with Well+Good consisted almost entirely of body-sham

This Portlandia Sketch About Older Pregnancy Is Way Too Real

Ever psyched yourself up for a consultation with a doctor only to feel totally shut down? That's just what happens to Carrie Brownstein in a new episo

What You Can Actually Do Right Now To Help Preserve Reproductive ...

Update: This week, House Speaker Paul Ryan made it clear that defunding Planned Parenthood is a top priority for the GOP — and part of their larger p

Our Thoughts On Women’s Health‘s Major Body-...

I never, never thought I’d see the day when a magazine like Women’s Health opted to remove a cornerstone phrase like “Bikini Body”