“What We Are” is an online blog community for woman of all walks of life to share unfiltered stories and experiences on various issues women face today. We invite you to tuck away your glossy Instagram selfie. Take a deep breath and show up as you are. #NoFilterRequired
Two things that will always be true about me is that my name is Trina Dong and I grew up in Wisconsin. In other words, I miraculously made it through middle school unscathed in a small town with a last […]
A funny thing happened on the way to becoming a psychiatric architect (nope) . . . . . . a psychologist-architect (not that either) . . . umm, an architect (noooo) . . . okay, an ethnomusicologist (no again) . […]
About 9 months ago, I had a really big ugly cry. You know the ones. I was outside, walking my friends’ dogs, in a neighborhood where I could easily run into people I knew. It was around 8pm, and maybe […]
Click here to read Carey’s article. How I Recovered From Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression. I had heard about it, was warned about it, even read up on it a little before I had my daughter…but nothing could have prepared me for the agony of experiencing it. Almost immediately after arriving home […]
Catch us on Atomic Moms Podcast by Ellie Knaus! “Friends Nikki DeLoach (Awkward) and Jen Dede (Shameless) have supported each other through hell and back and aren’t afraid to crack a joke about it. They speak candidly about Jen’s 8 […]
One night, after spending the entire day praying to the porcelain throne, I sat down to type out my sickly frustrations and distress. I wrote an article entitled “I Hate My Pregnant Body” and decided to post it for the […]
There is so much to say on this topic. I don’t feel I can speak truthfully about where I am today without sharing where my body has been the last few years. The past 7 years (almost 8), but who’s […]
Some days are good days. Some days are bad days. Some days I feel like a Victoria’s Secret model, and other days I look in the mirror and am harshly reminded that I’m 5’2″ with thunder thighs and I haven’t […]
“What We Are” is an online blog community for women of all walks of life to share unfiltered stories and experiences on various issues women face today. We invite you to tuck away your glossy Instagram selfie. Take a deep breath and show up as you are. #NoFilterRequired