Recently, while shopping in a hurry with an impatient kid, Simi Sapir grabbed a pair of jeans two sizes bigger than what she usually wears. And she loves them: “They are so comfortable. They hit me perfectly above the ankle. They never give me an ‘I need to unbuckle my pants’ feeling after a good meal. They mold to my body, regardless of what I eat or how I feel, or what time of the month it is. Maybe the reason I haven’t stopped wearing them is because they allow more space for me — the real me, all of me, at any given moment.”

And it got her thinking: Where else in her life could she size up and allow herself some extra room? Give it a read and see if it changes things for you.

Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor

Julie Sprankles recently caught up with Grey’s Anatomy’s Jesse Williams, and he had some things to say about inequality and how many kids in America don’t have the most basic necessities: “The best thing you can do for a young person is to help establish a solid foundation,” he said. “A lot of that has to do with our sense of self-care and what we consider in the list of that trendy term ‘self-care.’ What does that include? And some of these things we take for granted.” Check it out.