January is the magical time when everyone suddenly decides they’re going to become a kale-eating, sunrise-meditating, self-optimized superhero.

Listen, no.

You don’t need a new you.

The current you is already a masterpiece: complicated, sensual, hilarious, occasionally feral, sometimes exhausted, often brilliant, and always worth loving. And she’s frankly had it with being redesigned every year like an app update nobody asked for.

What you do need, what we all need, is to come home to yourself, to your body, to your actual desires. To that moment in the middle of the day when you feel a low hum in your hips and remember you have a body that likes to be........

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