I Built This for the Woman Who Doesn't Know Who to Ask There are moments in every woman's life that change her. Some are beautiful. Some break her. A baby. A diagnosis. A divorce. Starting a business. Losing a parent. Moving to a new town. Leaving an abusive relationship. Becoming an empty nester. Changing careers. Perimenopause. Grief. Sometimes, what we need isn't another Google search. It isn't another Facebook post. It isn't 147 comments from strangers recommending people they've never...

Starting over is rarely the cinematic "clean slate" we see in movies. It isn’t always about a dramatic suitcase packed in the middle of the night or a sudden, triumphant resignation. More often, it’s a quiet realization: a moment where we look around and recognize that the life we were living no longer fits the woman we are becoming. Whether you are navigating the aftermath of a divorce, moving to a city where you don't know a soul, pivoting your career after a decade, or simply...

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To every woman living in addiction, abuse and judgement When my son died, I expected grief.I expected pain.What I didn’t expect was to be turned into the villain of my own tragedy. In 2010, I was a young mother trapped in violence, trapped in addiction, and trapped in a system that saw my struggles as proof that I didn’t deserve compassion. I was on felony probation. I was using. I was trying to survive. And like so many women in the same situation, I thought I could protect my...

I Should Have Left I should have left.Early on.You know that moment — when something inside you shifts. When a line gets crossed, a boundary quietly gets stepped over, and your whole body whispers, “danger… danger…”But the whisper isn’t as loud as your brain screaming, “But I love him.” I should have left. I should have left when he became the only person I had.Everyone was suddenly gone, and somehow I never noticed the slow disappearing until...

I remember being 17 and so lost in the whole “sex” thing. Everyone around me seemed to get it — or at least pretended to — and there I was, uninterested, uninspired, and completely uneducated. A late bloomer, apparently. I just wasnt experienced in that field.  I did the “responsible” thing — got on birth control — but beyond that? There was no beyond that. I had sex for the first time at 17. It was trash.It stayed trash for the next...

42 Things I’ve Learned by 42 by Samantha Krause Somewhere between lattes, laundry, deadlines, and dreams, I’ve collected a few lessons. Not the polished kind you read in self-help books, but the messy, coffee-stained truths that come from actually living. Here are 42 things I’ve learned in my 42 years on this spinning planet: Life & Perspective Your 20s are for learning, your 30s are for unlearning, and your 40s are for actually living. Nobody has it “all...

What Do You Do Now? Navigating the Quiet After They’ve Flown I’m sitting here on my couch, in what I guess I’d call my part-time home now, with my two dogs for company. And I’ve found myself asking this huge, echoing question: What am I supposed to do now? For so long, my life revolved around my kids. They were everything—my end-all, be-all. And now they’re these amazing grown humans who have flown the coop. They barely respond to texts, they’ve got...