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Catherine Pearlman

Writer, reader, licensed clinical social worker and author of Ignore It!: How Selectively Looking The Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction. Catherine is the mom to two mostly well-behaved kids and a fur baby named Norma.

I Tried The Cross-Fit 6-Week Challenge, & Whoa Mama, I Came A Long Way

On the far side of running multiple marathons and having children, Catherine Pearlman wanted to do something to get herself out of a postpartum fitness rut. Enter: the Crossfit 6-week challenge. Most days, I wouldn’t trade motherhood for a billion…
By Catherine Pearlman

I Went To A Super-Naked Spa To Make Peace With My Mom-Bod

I’m completely naked, surrounded by a hundred stark-nekkid ladies who are total strangers to me. I see giant boobs, surgically removed or altered boobs, saggy boobs, and teeny tiny ones. Old boobs, young boobs, perfectly perky boobs. The same is…
By Catherine Pearlman

I Was Physically Repulsed By My Own Breast Milk & It Made Feeding My Baby A Nightmare

Liquid gold. A miracle. Mother’s milk. The breastmilk hype is real. Squirt some into your eye to cure an infection, the internet tells you. Squirt it up your baby’s nose when they are congested. Douse yourself in breast milk. There’s just one…
By Catherine Pearlman