Caitlin Jill Anders

Bio

Caitlin Jill Anders is a writer, amateur photographer (she gets Instagram “likes” sometimes), and gluten free eater. She likes green apples, pugs, Law and Order SVU marathons, whiskey, writing "about me's," and brunch.

Why The Term 'Beautiful' Is A Genderless Descriptor For This Generation

By Caitlin Jill Anders

There many words and phrases to describe how we feel about someone’s appearance. A person can be cute, pretty, adorable, sexy, hot, stunning, f*ckable, bangable, a cutie with a booty, a hottie with a body, an ace with a face, etc. All of these are…

Friends In High Places: How Relationships Help Me Cope With Anxiety

By Caitlin Jill Anders

There are days when I am so anxious, I feel like I cannot breathe. The anxiety forms a hard knot in my chest, reminding me with each breath, there is something inside of me telling me, "I can’t do this." There are days when I am sad, and I can’t…

A Little Less Crazy: 5 Ways Your Mom Brings You Back Down To Earth

By Caitlin Jill Anders

There are days when we all feel a little crazy. There’s no way around it. We’re running here and there, making decisions and losing our minds. We wonder if everyone else is as weird and frazzled as we are. Most days, it seems like probably…

The 7 Types Of 'Good Sex' You Can Have With A Partner

By Caitlin Jill Anders

After a weekend spent with a significant other, friend with benefits, friend with newly discovered benefits, entirely brand new friend, caught off guard celebrity, stranger posing as a celebrity, standard stranger or any kind of human in general,…

Why Great Things Happen Outside Of Your Comfort Zone

By Caitlin Jill Anders

I started Googling quotes on bravery recently, and I came up with not very much at all. It was all just a lot of important people reminding us to have courage; everything will be okay if we just take a deep breath and go. We all know this. I know…

Nomads Forever: 7 Ways Millennials Redefine The Word 'Home'

By Caitlin Jill Anders

The older I get, the more I struggle with the idea of home. As young adults, we move from home to college to traveling to everywhere else; we never seem to be solidly in one place. Even when we are, our emotions certainly aren’t, and our idea of…

6 Kinds Of Sex You Have When You’re Not In A Relationship

By Caitlin Jill Anders

Just because you’re not in a relationship doesn’t mean you’re not having sex, contrary to what our parents might like to believe. As long as you’re being safe and it’s your choice, sex can be a pretty fabulous thing — a thing even the single crowd…

Zero To 100: What It's Like To Suffer From Panic Attacks

By Caitlin Jill Anders

You arrive at a restaurant where you’re supposed to be meeting your friend, and he texts you to ask if you can actually save five seats, all on your own. He’s bringing extra people, and everyone will be a little bit late. You can feel the anxiety…

What It's Like Growing Up With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

By Caitlin Jill Anders

There’s more than one way to do things. If a road is blocked, you take a different one. If a store is out of a flavor of ice cream, you pick another one. If you can’t do something one way, you do it another. It seems like this would be one of the…

6 Kinds Of Sex You Have When You're In A Committed Relationship

By Caitlin Jill Anders

Sex is such a diverse thing; there’s no right way to have it and no one way that everyone is doing it. It’s different every time you partake, and I think that’s what’s so wonderful about it. Even when you’re in a relationship, the sex is not the…