happiness

creating a safe space for change

March 4, 2010

I spend much of my adult life looking for holes in my ever thickening atmosphere of comfort and safety, trying to figure out how to better insulate and support myself. I am the type of girl who needs serious continuity and stability. I need to know where my stuff is, how I’m going to get [...]

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Welcome, 2010, I So Excited About You..

December 31, 2009

So, on monday I wrote a post entitled Learning To Love Yourself, Even When You Feel Awful in which I promised a follow up on tips that would help you learn to love yourself during the hardest and most terrible body image lows, AND then I thought, how perfect would that be in the form [...]

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dream incubation

September 30, 2009

I was just reading Gala Darling’s Things I Love Thursday, in which she states that she recently found a scrap of paper on which she had written the phrase “dream incubation,” and I was struck by the phrase as I was walking around my house. Dream incubation. I’ve written before about manifesting and believing in [...]

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confessions of a compulsive eater, II

August 20, 2009

or, Lessons I Don’t Want to Teach My Daughters, depending. I feel revolting. I am too busy to feel revolting. And yet, here I am, again, feeling like my skin is too tight and I am suffocating in my overwhelming need to consume. I will give myself a slight reprieve: I did quit smoking – [...]

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feeling powerful: pulling yourself from the dark place

August 6, 2009

When I was a kid I was pretty generally terrified. I would lie awake in my bed, night after night, tensely alert because I was sure that if my eyes closed even for a second something terrible would happen. I was afraid of the things that people were capable of doing when no one was [...]

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