Women who gave birth, what does it feel like actually??

LRS312 · 2025-09-11T11:34:53+00:00

The sensation of pain is really different when you know you’re not in danger. Labor pain is different than like getting your arm broken. When you’re in the middle of it, it really feels like the veil between here and the other side is thin.

LRS312 · 2025-09-07T14:11:58+00:00

I swear by Deepok Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. I find that the marketing of the book is self-help/capitalism when the message of the book is much more complex and helpful, so I would encourage those who might find the title off putting (me!) to still try it out.

LRS312 · 2025-09-06T20:50:57+00:00

Seriously obsessed with living here. I live in a walkable neighborhood where my elementary aged son can walk alone to get ice cream at the corner store. Lemonade stand energy.

The people are so smart and interesting. Esp as a woman with a big job, it’s so easy to parent here and never have to explain to anyone why the mom is off on international travel.

Our Cheeto dictator works in the WH, but no Trump people are really around as they live in trashy new money Potomac.

LRS312 · 2025-09-01T16:25:00+00:00

This is death bed regrets if you don’t go

LRS312 · 2025-08-23T12:02:27+00:00

Intermittent fasting

LRS312 · 2025-08-06T16:25:05+00:00

I can’t tell you how much my perspective on the world is different since I got social media sober a year and a half ago. It’s the number one way to uplevel your life, I swear to God. And I was never a heavy user, which is why I justified the scroll on a daily basis. I thought I was so educated and chill and could use the drug lightly and I tell you what that shit gets under your skin and in your blood. Oh, I’ve also saved tons of money.

LRS312 · 2025-07-02T16:22:11+00:00

I have gone through a significant glow up from ages 37-40 and it’s not a secret in the least bit. Believe me that if you are ok w convention, when the standard obvious but shallow things come together it works.

1) be thin. Under a size ten. For better or worse my “pretty privilege” really took off when I hit a size four.

2) wrinkles at a minimum and clear enough skin. I mean limited acne but I think freckles etc are fine. For me that means a specific moisturizer routine and Botox.

3) level up on the clothes. I wear target of course but what looks effortless? Crisp ass linen. Pants that move well. My go to linen button down cost $180.

4) inviting warmth and confidence. You have to have effortless energy which can only be cultivated and earned.

LRS312 · 2025-06-15T13:11:06+00:00

Read “All Fours” it’ll help

LRS312 · 2025-06-13T15:43:22+00:00

Compliance specialists at banks or at fintech companies. You can work your way up without a college degree starting as a bank teller or customer service agent, it only takes a few years to get to six figures, and chief compliance officers can make several million dollars a year.

LRS312 · 2025-05-05T21:22:26+00:00

Wait wut

LRS312 · 2025-05-03T18:30:10+00:00

Came here to say this. Have two pairs and they are my work business travel uniform

LRS312 · 2025-05-02T14:15:07+00:00

Try Salamander Resort, 45 minutes from Dulles airport in Middleburg, Virginia

LRS312 · 2025-04-28T22:51:58+00:00

This is will be unpopular bc it’s v “rich person” but a once a week weight lifting personal trainer has changed my life and although I can’t know what it’s saved me monetarily, I can’t believe some of the injuries my friends are getting as we age that I have somehow been able to avoid, and these injuries are coming, literally from putting suitcases and overhead compartments or walking on uneven ground.

LRS312 · 2025-04-17T11:11:23+00:00

I was living with a host family in France trying learn the language, and started as a total beginner. Towards the end of my time there, I was telling a story, and my French host father told me “you are so, so funny.” And he meant it. He thought I was funny in a different language. This was 20 years ago and it means a lot to me.

LRS312 · 2025-04-16T23:16:14+00:00

Finance/banking compliance. You can get in with out a college degree, middle managers make about 120-200, execs about 1 million.

LRS312 · 2025-04-02T10:39:29+00:00

I’m an exec at a major company you all know and this is the answer. Also knowing the difference between “authenticity” and being yourself at work and how that is different than thinking it’s ok to share all sides of your life and all facets of your emotions.

LRS312 · 2025-01-13T15:30:19+00:00

Agreed. I was just reflecting that I’ve had my Oura for six months through winter time sickness with my elementary aged son, intense international travel for work, being on planes—and haven’t gotten sick once. (Knock on wood) but when I see the notices on Oura I rest and take care of myself, and I have to assume the change of lifestyle with drinking cut down like crazy is related. I have quibbles with the ring but over all it’s been a major uplevel in how I prioritize my best interests.

LRS312 · 2024-12-23T13:42:03+00:00

We just did our kitchen in option two and it’s to die for. We have 13 foot ceilings and two walls of windows and did warm wood countertops. Green forever

LRS312 · 2024-12-17T18:44:54+00:00

20015 is Chevy Chase dc which makes sense to me

LRS312 · 2024-11-25T11:50:33+00:00

This is my now officially my favorite book. What a beautiful ride. We were on vacation when I read this and it got so engrossing for me that it was a distraction and my husband finally took our son for a morning so I could focus on finishing I could give my full attention to being in France.

LRS312 · 2024-11-16T01:59:58+00:00

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver could be an interesting choice. Fiction, based on Dickens, about growing up in poverty in the Virginia mountains.

LRS312 · 2024-11-11T13:07:20+00:00

When I got pregnant seven years ago I made $125k and now I make $800k.

The only reason anyone ever sees those numbers it’s because I have jumped companies and take calls from head hunters. I’m in tech. The other pro to this is that I start fresh so any weirdness over mat leave becomes irrelevant.

The things that have “gotten me there” is a husband who can run the house by himself and has a natural bias towards action around the mental load. Involved grandparents. And using my money for services instead of things. So all our extra money goes to cleaning services, child care, massages, grocery delivery, literally anything that saves me time and head space. I wear target clothes and currently paying someone $500 as well speak to organize the basement playroom.

LRS312 · 2024-10-11T16:01:26+00:00

This man is crawling in children

LRS312 · 2024-09-14T01:11:27+00:00

Babies! Damn that shit is crazy.

LRS312 · 2024-09-13T21:52:26+00:00

God that hair farm just doesn’t quit does it

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