Guest Posts, On Being Human
October 27, 2017
Wait, it’s over? Already? Or: F*ck Scarcity
By Jen Pastiloff I’m on the plane. I have Game of Thrones on in front of me, paused on…
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Guest PostsPersister.
Hi, it’s Jen Pastiloff here. I never blog on the site anymore but here I am in New York,…
October 19, 2017Share this:
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Guest Posts, Manifestation Retreats, travelTurn on The Light, Mother F*%cker. Post Italy Blog.
By Jen Pastiloff I don’t blog often here on the site anymore but I wanted to share about my…
July 2, 2017Share this:
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Guest Posts, healing, Manifestation Retreats, Retreats/WorkshopsThe Aleksander Scholarship Fund.
The answer to why some of us have to experience such pain in this life is a non-answer. There is no answer or platitude. Everything doesn’t happen for a reason. Donate if you feel inspired to.
October 17, 2016Share this:
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Birthday, Girl Power: You Are Enough, Guest Posts, Jen Pastiloff, Jen's MusingsGetting Older is Everything. Don’t Believe The Lies. A Message To Young Women on Jen Pastiloff’s Bday.
I was terrified of getting older. In my 20’s I lied and said I was younger. When I was 28, I said I was 25.
I thought once I turned 30 I would be useless. Read that again: useless.
December 12, 2015Share this:
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Eating Disorders/Healing, feminism, Guest PostsYou Really Should Be Skinnier
Don’t comment on my body or my face or if I am smiling. Don’t ask me if I am pregnant unless you see me giving birth or you know for sure. Don’t offer unsolicited advice about how I can be more beautiful or perfect or womanly or successful. Unless I ask you, zip it, Dude. Zip it.
August 18, 2015Share this:
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Girl Power: You Are Enough, Guest Posts, Jen Pastiloff, Jen's MusingsYou’re Enough. Don’t Be An Asshole & Go Forgetting That.
By Jen Pastiloff As you know if you follow me on social media or come to my workshops etc,…
August 16, 2015Share this:
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Guest Posts, Jen Pastiloff, Jen's MusingsLying to Ourselves.
I think we lie to ourselves to survive.
June 11, 2015Share this:
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depression, Guest Posts, Truth, Video, VulnerabilityThe Truth About Depression. No Bullshit.
By Jen Pastiloff I just got back from leading a beautiful retreat for Mother’s Day. I feel hung…
May 11, 2015Share this:
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Delight, Guest Posts, I Have Done Love, InspirationWhat Happens When Justin Timberlake & 25,000 Fans Sing Happy Birthday To a Boy With Autism?
Hey there! Jen Pastiloff here, I’m the founder of The Manifest-Station. Marika, the author of this piece, won a spot at…
August 14, 2014Share this:
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courage, death, depressionDepression is a Duplicitous Asshole.
by Angela Giles Patel Everyone battles something. Some of these battles are episodic and some rage over the course…
August 11, 2014Share this:
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Guest Posts, Interview, Women are EnoughThe Converse-Station: Emma Hudelson interviews Erin Khar
There are several approaches to treating cancer, so if one doesn’t work, then try another. The same should be true for recovery.
February 20, 2020Share this:
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Guest Posts, Yoga, Young VoicesMy Practice
One morning, I woke up to practice. I spent about twenty minutes moving by body then rested it on the floor. I lay in corpse pose as the sun filtered through the blinds, casting shadows and warming my face. A few hours later, as I sat on the couch in that same living space, the sun casting shadows on the wall, my boyfriend killed himself in our bedroom.
February 18, 2020Share this:
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Books, Guest Posts
Strung Out: Prologue
The truth is I did do drugs, a lot of drugs. I used heroin off and on from the age of thirteen until I got pregnant with Atticus at age twenty-eight.
February 13, 2020Share this:
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Guest Posts, InspirationThe Coach Who Breaks All The Records – Ronda Shirley
Shirley is not just a successful coach, she is also mentor, and role model who motivates her players and children to become the best versions of themselves.
February 11, 2020Share this:
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Converse-Station, Guest PostsThe Converse-Station: Alma Luz Villaneuva Interviews Gayle Brandeis
Your response says it all, Gayle- punched me in the gut, where truth often lands. And I can hear her small girl voice whisper, “Help me.”
February 3, 2020Share this:
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Guest Posts, Health, motherhoodPromises
After twelve hours of standing, gravity pulled blood into the veins of my feet, my ankles, my calves. I felt as if there were weights in my shoes––I was tired.
January 28, 2020Share this:
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Guest Posts, Mental HealthNevertheless She…
I am convinced that religious fundamentalism is not just a social evil – it destroys the psyches of emotional individuals who are predisposed to self-examination and who care about being good people.
January 15, 2020Share this:
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Child Birth, Choice, Guest PostsNo Kids, No Regrets
When we’re settling into our seats, an emaciated brown-haired woman with a Tom Petty overbite slides in. Her thighs are the same width as my forearms, and Zoe appears in the aisle. She’s screaming like a banshee.
December 27, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, parentingTHE FIELD
I hear the ching of the aluminum bat. It’s a double. I watch my son leave home and round the corners, stopping at second. I wish it were a triple, so he’d be standing on the third corner, closer to where I’m sitting.
December 24, 2019Share this:
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Guest PostsWoman Reading Newspapear
I had been wandering through other gallery rooms and went to join my mother only to see that she had claimed a spot on the floor near a corner. She’d seated herself, let her coat fall off her shoulders, plopped her handbag on the floor beside her, and arranged the newspaper in front of her as if she were reading.
December 22, 2019Share this:
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Current Events, Guest PostsMueller Time
Because of the experiences I’ve seen Rachel go through, I have a heightened sensitivity to watching people treat others with blatant disrespect.
December 19, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, Mental HealthWalk This Way
If you’d told me last summer that I’d be training for a half-marathon this summer, I would have laughed hard and loud. Not because it was funny, per se, but because of my mental illness and the crippling grip it has on me.
December 17, 2019Share this:
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Grief, Guest Posts, healingI Made Peace With My Body And Found My Soul
I could have gone to the gym every day to expel that pent up desire, anxiety and anger. But a completely numb body is easier to manage than a body that is partially awake.
December 15, 2019Share this:
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Activism, Guest Posts, Owning It!A Female Fighter
As I drive, I think to myself, maybe I expect too much out of friends, but I don’t think so. I expect a friend to have my back in times of tragedy. After all, that’s what friends do.
December 12, 2019Share this:
