Trish Bentley
Empowering Young People To Express Themselves Through Prose
This past year I ran a workshop in two grade eight classes, entitled: Writing The Personal Narrative: A Turning Points Essay. The...
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Trish Bentley Is The Unapologetic Parent on The Huffington Post
Trish Bentley, editor of The Purple Fig, contributor for The Huffington Post, has a new column, Unapologetic Parent: Informative and...
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Believe What People Tell You
New Year’s resolution posts are a standard issue right now. Tiz the season to want to become healthier, smarter, more productive and...
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Modern Mothers Aren’t Drinking Anymore Than Generations Before Us So Why Are We Judged Like It
Today, there are many books, memes and blog posts dedicated to this idea that wine (or any other alcoholic beverage for that matter) is...
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Why I Will Probably Never Look Like Kayla Itsines
As I scroll through Kayla Itsine’s Instagram feed, I am astonished by the number of women completely transforming their bodies. And I...
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We Are All Ordinary People In Extraordinary Times
For the first time since forever, the sun is shining and warm on our faces. There’s a lull in hostilities and my girls are playing well...
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International Women’s Day: What It Means To Me To Be A Women
Recently, as we sat around the dinner table and looked back on our day, my three year old son told us about how upset he had been. “What...
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Losing It Less and Choosing Happiness More
One day, after the fourteenth emotional breakdown from one of my two young boys, I found myself preaching the idea of happiness being a...
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How Being Thrown in the Deep End Changed Cynthia Loyst’s Life
It’s hard to believe anyone as beautiful, confident and ambitious as Cynthia Loyst, co-host of the popular TV show The Social (alongside...
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Mothers Against Judgement: Don’t Feel Bad If You Don’t Breastfeed
There is something that comes along with becoming a mother that is much less obvious than the lack of sleep, post-baby muffin top, and...
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Finding a Balance Between 70s Parenting and Modern Meddling
If you are a parent, you know the complete powerlessness within parenthood that exists between peeing on a stick and the day you die....
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Are You Afraid of Elevators, Pickles, Chicken?
Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a...
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5 Books to Increase Your Vocabulary This Summer
I caught a little bit of The Bachelorette last night and before long I had to turn it off. I actually had the option to turn it off...
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Letter to my Older Self
My grandma set the bar for me on how the elderly should roll. I’m only realizing now that she was truly one of a kind. I thought that all...
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The Lady and the Contractor: 7 Things I Learned While Managing a Renovation
Last year, approximately $24 billion was spent on home renovations in North America. Women are accounting for a majority of those home...
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You Don’t Need to Buy Roast Chicken in a Grocery Store Again
If you’ve ever picked up a rotisserie chicken from Costco or your local grocery store, you know how good they can be and how incredibly...
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Note From Trish: Staying Positive and Living in the Now
Have you ever looked at a dog sleeping, or just strolling along the street without a care in the world, and wanted to switch spots for a...
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Food: Kale is My Boyfriend
Kale is my boyfriend. It’s like that muscle-head guy in a tank top who isn’t my type at all because he works out too much and doesn’t...
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Come On People, Let’s Read More
To a New Year and Newer Literary Adventures Being an avid reader, whose ever-growing appetite for literature doesn’t seem to be waning...
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Note From Trish: The Meaning of Christmas
Suddenly this year every time a commercial for anything toy-related comes on, I hear: “I want that. I want that from Santa!” My son is...