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Jun 26, 2022

Don’t Let Friendly Fire Derail the Real Fight for Reproductive Justice

We need to talk about something that’s undermining our fight for reproductive justice. It’s been a brutal weekend, made more so by a minor trend I’ve seen in speeches at rallies and in my social feeds — rage channeled at the people who are showing up. Don’t get me wrong…

Feminism

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Don’t Let Friendly Fire Derail the Real Fight for Reproductive Justice
Don’t Let Friendly Fire Derail the Real Fight for Reproductive Justice
Feminism

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Mar 26, 2021

What I Miss About Being Addicted to Diet-Culture

I didn’t go looking for diet recovery, it found me. Looking back now I’m amazed at how long it took me to see that obsession with weight loss had completely consumed my life. At my various low points, I obsessed over my weight loss quest for the majority of my…

Women

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What I Miss About Being Addicted to Diet-Culture
What I Miss About Being Addicted to Diet-Culture
Women

5 min read


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The Shadow

·Jan 30, 2021

Stop Looking for a Guru

Women need to own our authority — Why is it so hard for women to own our authority? Why do we spend so much time seeking the opinions of others and looking for authority outside of ourselves? And how do we reclaim the power and sentience that is rightfully ours? Here’s what I’m seeing: The world is…

Women

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Stop Looking for a Guru
Stop Looking for a Guru
Women

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Jun 6, 2020

Spiritual white women: burying your head in the sand is hurting not healing

Something I hear often from other white women, particularly in the spiritual or healing space, is that they don’t follow news or politics. The reasons they cite are various — feeling upset or scared by what they see happening in the world, not enough time or a feeling of not…

Spirituality

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Spiritual white women: burying your head in the sand is hurting not healing
Spiritual white women: burying your head in the sand is hurting not healing
Spirituality

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Age of Awareness

·Mar 14, 2020

How to Keep American Individualism from Making the COVID-19 Crisis Worse

Community matters… I’ve written about how American individualism damages our health and wellbeing in the past but this week has illustrated just how much in living color. …

Social Justice

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How to Keep American Individualism from Making the COVID-19 Crisis Worse
How to Keep American Individualism from Making the COVID-19 Crisis Worse
Social Justice

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Feb 8, 2020

Being Age-Inappropriate

I ran out of fucks on my 40th birthday. Seriously. Unlike when I turned 30, I wasn’t thinking about how much I was supposed have accomplished or what I still “had time for.” …

Women

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Being Age-Inappropriate
Being Age-Inappropriate
Women

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The Startup

·Dec 12, 2019

An Open Letter to Health Professionals

from those of us who struggle to find one who will respect us — I got a text from a dear friend last week about her attempt to find a primary care physician in the city where she’s recently relocated. She was shaken and stunned at the way she was treated by a doctor who had never laid eyes on her before that day. …

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An Open Letter to Health Professionals
An Open Letter to Health Professionals

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The Startup

·Nov 18, 2019

We Need to Talk About Positivity

A while back, I published an article about how the self-help industry sometimes gaslights us. It got a lot of response, mostly positive, but also generated confusion for some people. …

Self Improvement

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We Need to Talk About Positivity
We Need to Talk About Positivity
Self Improvement

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The Startup

·Jul 7, 2019

Is the Self-Help Industry is Gaslighting You?

“You create your reality through the power of positive thinking.” “If you’re unhappy, that’s on YOU.” “Shift your mindset and you’ll manifest all you desire.” “Positivity will set you free.” What do all these statements have in common? Aside from the fact that they are infinitely meme-able (and arguably vomit-inducing)…

Self Improvement

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Feel Like the Self-Help Industry is Gaslighting You?
Feel Like the Self-Help Industry is Gaslighting You?
Self Improvement

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Feb 17, 2019

I’m not a Feminist, but…

If I had a dollar for every time I heard a woman say to me — in a hushed tone, often looking around warily to see who might be listening — that she’s “not a feminist, but” and then go on to explain that she doesn’t approve of a particular…

Feminism

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I’m not a Feminist, but…
I’m not a Feminist, but…
Feminism

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Jen Pavich

Jen Pavich

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feminist life coach, shame resilience teacher, justice advocate, cocktail queen and cat lover. jenpavich.com

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