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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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:
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Guest Posts, Starting Over, Young VoicesYellow Bath Towels
Your new home is made your parents’ RV in their backyard. Finally. A place for you and your belongings. A place that you can freely be without being in the way. A feeling that you haven’t had in a while. Because you had a roommate for the last five months.
December 10, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, No Bullshit MotherhoodOne Morning With Amy
When a couple of attempts to correct her resulted in angry shouts of “No, you are not right! I am right!” I surrendered to her certainty.
December 8, 2019Share this:
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Family, Grief, Guest PostsGrief, Unfolding
Her illness and mortality have bitch-slapped me into understanding and appreciation. My mother’s killer screams Wake up! Don’t you realize the gift you’ve been given? I do.
December 5, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, moving onWho Are You – A Mad Libs Identity
Over-strategizing becomes a roadblock to living life fully. At times it’s best to live life with blanks, uncertainties if you will, so that some miracle can come and fill them in.
December 3, 2019Share this:
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death, Grief, Guest PostsBreathwork
Now I mourn my mother through breath. Each morning I lie on a mat in a hot room and squeeze my eyes shut and breathe her in. Or breathe her out. Yes, breath is supposed to anchor me in my body but I use it to exit my body, just as my mother taught me. I rise to the celling of the yoga room, alone and untethered.
December 1, 2019Share this:
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Compassion, Family, Grief, Guest PostsI Didn’t Love Her Until The Day She Died
I didn’t sit there because I loved her. I sat there because I didn’t want to watch her die alone in a room full of people who should have been there holding her hand.
November 24, 2019Share this:
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Addiction, Grief, Guest PostsWhat I Wanted To Say
What I wanted to say was, It took him years to die overnight. He was an alcoholic. Drank himself to death at 47.
November 22, 2019Share this:
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cancer, Family, Guest PostsA Walk in the Park
“Tim’s bothering me,” Luke’s message said. “If he doesn’t stop, I’m going to blow his fucking head off.”
I called Luke back. “I know about Tim bothering you. He bothers me too. But I thought I should point out that Tim is dead.”November 20, 2019Share this:
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empty nest, Guest Posts, motherhoodUndone
The anxiety of not knowing the extent of her injuries numbed my limbs and tightened my chest, and I could not concentrate on the tasks I needed to accomplish. Neither could I overcome the fear of actually finding out what had happened.
November 18, 2019Share this:
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Eating/Food, emotions, Guest PostsNoise
There is nothing wrong with self-improvement. Not one damn thing. But are all these books, podcasts, and blogs really aimed at self-improvement, or do they sell the idea that the way someone is doing something is the way we should all do it?
November 17, 2019Share this:
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Grief, Guest Posts, healingBreeze
How did my body tell me about its own grief after my fiance was killed? The breeze on my cheek – just a few weeks after he died – stopped me in my tracks.
November 15, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, motherhood, No Bullshit Motherhood, parentingMothering In Heat
I’m convinced that climate change is going to boil us all alive, and this record-setting July heat wave had done nothing to assuage my fear.
November 13, 2019Share this:
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Abuse, Guest Posts, Letting Go, Mental HealthYellow
My teeth were yellow after a friend committed suicide and I started smoking a pack a day for almost two months. I quit shortly afterward.
November 10, 2019Share this:
