You may have noticed it creeping back in. The headlines. The red-carpet commentary. The sudden celebration of “heroin chic” bodies that look suspiciously like the ones we were told to starve ourselves into back in the 1990s. Skinny culture is making a comeback. For women our age, this isn’t exactly new territory. Many of us grew up in a time when the message was clear: smaller was better, hunger was discipline, and strength was…unfeminine. A lot of women paid a high price for

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to keep a beginner’s mindset — and why it matters way more than we give it credit for, especially as adults. Somewhere along the line, many of us picked up the idea that we should already be good at things before we try them. We expect competence right out of the gate. And when we’re not instantly decent at something new, we quietly decide it’s “not for us.” But here’s the truth: We shouldn’t expect to be good at something