Hang with me for a minute, because this topic is a little morbid. It may seem too dark to feature on a site dedicated to making your weekdays a little brighter, but that’s the thing: Life Between Weekends isn’t about solely focusing on the warm and fuzzy, and glossing over everything else. It’s about honestly…

If you cringe when people start telling painfully honest truths — if their honesty and their rawness makes you want to change topics, STAT — Glennon Doyle Melton’s latest book, Love Warrior, isn’t for you. But you should probably read it more than anyone. The Momastery blogger has never shied away from getting vulnerable, bearing…

By Michelle Joy If you’re looking for a motivational self-helpy book that is also humorous and “real,” this is the book for you. If you’re not looking for that, this is still the book for you. Honestly, everyone should read and/or listen to Jen Sincero’s You Are A Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start…

We’ve all been there: You’ve been running nonstop, constantly feeling three items behind on your to-do list from where you need to be, and the tasks keep piling up.  You’re feeling overwhelmed and you just want to break down, but you know you’ve got to power through — at least for the next few minutes,…

One of the thrilling parts of the holiday season is the thought of taking time off. You imagine yourself completely agenda-less, basking in the glow of an open fire — or hearing the waves crashing on the beach, if you’re a fellow Floridian — but often, there’s one little snag. Work. Sometimes, it’s not even…

For the past few years, I’ve been enchanted by the concept of saying ‘yes’ to life (yup, kind of like that Jim Carrey movie, Yes Man). The idea of taking on any and every opportunity presented, of following your curiosity and seeing where life takes you just seemed all too appealing — and freeing. Sure,…

Whenever something doesn’t turn out as planned, I typically overanalyze it until I make myself crazy. I intend to learn from the mistakes and move on, but my problem is that I rarely see the mistake, acknowledge it and keep moving forward. I pretend to do that, while inside, a tape recorder plays, looping the…

Next week, Americans all over the country will be celebrating Thanksgiving — that time of the year we can all put our differences aside, appreciate all the many things we’ve been blessed with, and eat all sorts of incredible coma-inducing food.   This week, though, we here at LBW recommend throwing a Friendsgiving party first . If…

By and large, magazines are still sold by their front pages. The face that graces the cover can make or break sales, which is why most of the time, every glossy you see will feature a celebrity striking a power pose. This month, Relevant took a very different — and refreshing — approach. The cover features…

At the beginning of the year, when I launched this blog, I set some wildly ambitious (and, okay, maybe unrealistic) goals for myself, and I encouraged anyone who’s reading to do the same. Yup, I get all rah-rah, “let’s do this!” about benchmarking my future and planning things out. Maybe it has to do with…

As a writer, I’ve always believed that words are powerful, but I’ve never taken them too seriously. In college, I was the one not-so-subtly rolling my eyes when people complained that first-year students should be called “freshpeople*,” not “freshmen.” There is a point where we become too PC, and we’re so careful about phrasing every…