What I Learned About Confidence During a Yearlong Battle with Hormonal Acne

“I spent a lot of my thirty-first year on earth crying about my skin. Yes, you’re reading that right: thirty-one, not thirteen, seventeen, or even twenty, when skin woes are presumed to be more common. I was in the midst of the worst hormonal acne breakout of my life and all I wanted was to hide away forever.”

Acne can last well into your twenties, thirties, and beyond. Kara Nesvig is sharing her experience with hormonal acne, and what finally helped it heal.

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Reimagining Myself as a Mother

woman holds small child in a hat

“While my husband oscillated between feelings of joy and terror post-positive test, I was preoccupied about how this new addition to our family would alter the world I’d worked so hard to build and who I’d become as a result.”

Contributor Kara Nesvig is exploring the vast questions that impending parenthood presents: namely, what will change once the baby arrives? And what will stay the same?

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