"This year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it."

"What I wouldn't give for a moment of peace and calm." This was the thought I had a few days ago on a particularly hectic day running errands, running my business, and parenting my four-and-a-half month old.

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Most people assume that embarrassment of working out at the gym is just a body image issue. While that's probably true for some, it's not always the whole story.

Like the good little Catholic girl that I was, I said my prayers every night. And I prayed to God, begging and pleading with everything I had to bargain, to get my period and be just like the other girls.